‘Exhilarating’ – Sunday Times‘Rapturous’ – Sunday Telegraph‘A remarkable tale of grace and danger’ – Financial TimesWhen paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid, to feel that thrill and that fear . . .Breath by Tim Winton is the story of Bruce and his best friend Loonie, and the surfing obsession that changed both of their lives. It is about the exhilaration of the sea and the waves, the treacherous addiction to risk, and the intoxicating power of forbidden love.Part of the Picador Collection.
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An enthralling story of the wildness of youth, set in the world of surfing.
An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781035063536
Publisert
2025-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.