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Breath

Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limits against nature and discovering just how far one breath will take you.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Winton, Tim
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Young men > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Surfers > Fiction. Australia > Fiction.
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Summary:	Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limits against nature and discovering just how far one breath will take you.
Physical Description:	217 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780374116347 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374116342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Tim Winton was born in 1960 in Western Australia. He attended a Creative Writing Course at Curtin University in Perth, and it was there that he began his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It was entered for The Australian/Vogel Award in 1981 and won. His other works include Shallows, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984; The Riders Winton, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1992; and Island Home: A Landscape Memoir, the winner of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards, General nonfiction book of the year. The Boy Behind the Curtain, published in 2016, won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Nonfiction. His books also include The Shepherd's Hut, Breath, and Dirt Music. (Bowker Author Biography)