Breath: A Novel

Synopsis

A story of risk and learning one’s limits by challenging death—now a major motion picture starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearOn the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution—in sports, relationships, and sex—each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.“Stunning in the depth of its audacity . . . limitlessly beautiful prose.” —The Washington Post Book World“A tender, incisive, sometimes brutal, and always moving coming-of-age novel . . . The prose is always astonishing, the descriptions of sea and weather especially vivid . . . The book seems as simple, and as vital, as the act of breathing itself.” —The Seattle Times“Darkly exhilarating . . . a tautly gorgeous meditation on the inescapable human addiction to the monotony of drawing breath, ‘whether you want to or not.’” —The New York Times Book Review“A coming-of-age novel written with Tim Winton’s customary tenderness and vivid sense of place and psychological truth . . . This is his most forceful and perfect novel to date.” —Colm Tóibín, New York Times–bestselling author

Copyright:

2008

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

228 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781429901246

Related ISBNs:

9780374116347

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Date of Addition:

11/04/24

Copyrighted By:

Tim Winton

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

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