Breath: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374116347 (0374116342)
ASIN: 0374116342
Publish date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Australia,
Fiction
Breath is set in 1970s Western Australia. Pikelet and Loonie, two adolescent boys, are at first brought closer together by their love of surfing and free diving. Ultimately, it drives them apart as they compete for the approval of Sando, a daredevil veteran surfer who basks in their admiration and ...