Breath
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Price:
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$16.99
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On Sale:
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25/05/2009
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Formats:
Trade PB
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Filled with the lyrical
genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership
worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys
who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As
the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran big-wave surfer, and his
enigmatic wife, Eva, the two adults initiate the boys into forbidden worlds of
peril, testing the boundaries of athleticism, friendship, sexuality and
mortality.
Breath is a story
about the wildness of youth—the lust for excitement and terror, the
determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don’t—and
about learning to live with its passing.
P.S. to include
• extended author
biography
• essay about the
pleasure and power of surfing
• in-depth interview
with Winton about his writing career, his experience of nearly drowning and much
more. . .
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Author Extras
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Critical Praise for
Breath
“Breath is distilled Winton. . . . Majestic.”
—
New York Review of Books
“One of the most formidable voices in contemporary writing. . .
. Powerful and enthralling.”
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Times Colonist (Victoria)
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Breath
We talked about skill and courage and luck—we shared all that, and in time we surfed to fool with death—but for me there was still the outlaw feeling of doing something graceful, as if dancing on water was the best and bravest thing a man could do. —From Breath The Times (UK) said...
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From the internationally acclaimed, Booker-shortlisted author of Dirt Music and The Riders comes a masterpiece of fiction. Tender yet searing, The Turning is a brilliantly realized work of 17 overlapping stories that reads like a novel. These are the turnings of life—sudden detours, awkward...
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