![]() ![]() He understands only too well the forces that can propel a kid toward oblivion. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. ![]() ![]() Breath confirms him as one of the world’s finest storytellers, a writer of novels that are at the same time simple and profound, relentlessly gripping and deeply moving. In his first novel for seven years, Tim Winton has achieved a new level of mastery. More than once since then I’ve wondered whether the life-threatening high jinks that Loonie and I and Sando and Eva got up to in the years of my adolescence were anything more than a rebellion against the monotony of drawing breath.īreath 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. Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Awardīreath is an award-winning bestselling title and has been one of Australia’s bestselling titles since the publication of the hardcover edition in May 2008. ![]()
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