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Breath

Set amidst a community of surfboarders on the rugged coast of Western Australia, "Breath" is a powerful coming-of-age story told through the memories of one of the protagonists. Winton has twice been a finalist for the Booker Prize.

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  • "Sonne, Meer und Weite - für einen Surfer ist das nicht genug. Er braucht die grosse, die immer grössere Welle. Bruce Pike ist in seinem Leben viele Wellen geritten, er weiss um die Faszination und die Tücken dieses Sports. Dabei fing alles so harmlos an, in seinem kleinen Kaff an der Westküste Australiens: Als Kind tauchte er mit seinem Freund Loonie um die Wette, es ging darum, so lange wie möglich den Atem anzuhalten. Bald entdeckten sie gemeinsam das Surfen - und forderten immer waghalsiger den Tod heraus ... Tim Winton wurde 1960 in der Nähe von Perth, Westaustralien, geboren. Er hat zahlreiche Romane, Sachbücher sowie Kinderbücher veröffentlicht und ist einer der erfolgreichsten Schriftsteller Australiens. Zweimal kam er auf die Shortlist des 'Man Booker Prize', und dreimal erhielt er den 'Miles Franklin Award', den wichtigsten Literaturpreis Australiens. Seine Werke sind in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt, einiges wurde für Bühne, Radio und Film adaptiert. Tim Winton lebt mit seiner Frau und drei Kindern in Westaustralien. Bei Luchterhand ist erschienen: 'Der singende Baum' (Roman, 2004) und und 'Weite Welt' (Erzählungen, 2007)."
  • "Un roman sur le souffle, celui qui manque, que l'on retient, exhale ou exalte."
  • "Breath is a story about the wildness of youth. Twelve-year-old Bruce Pike, "Pikelet", lives in Sawyer, near Perth in Western Australia, in the early 70s. A small town of "millers and loggers and dairy farmers", Sawyer is also home to Loonie, one year older than Pikelet and a boy congenitally incapable of turning down a dare. They meet in the local river, Loonie swimming to the bottom and holding his breath for upwards of two minutes with the sole intention of scaring tourists into thinking he's drowning..."
  • "Set amidst a community of surfboarders on the rugged coast of Western Australia, "Breath" is a powerful coming-of-age story told through the memories of one of the protagonists. Winton has twice been a finalist for the Booker Prize."
  • "Set amidst a community of surfboarders on the rugged coast of Western Australia, "Breath" is a powerful coming-of-age story told through the memories of one of the protagonists. Winton has twice been a finalist for the Booker Prize."@en
  • ""More than once since then I've wondered whether the life-threatening high kinks 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."--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • "Breath opens with Bruce Pike, now a paramedic, arriving too late to save a teenage boy's life. Pike's partner wonders why the boy killed himself. Pike knows he didn't. He doesn't know the boy, but he knows the story. He still lives with the legacy of his own adolescence. When Loonie and Pike started to surf, they cycled from Angelus to the beach with their styrofoam boards, buffeted by the wind and, when they finally get to the sea, the waves. They couldn?t help it: they were terrified; they were addicted. Among the local surfers, one guy stood out. He turned up alone, when the swell was highest, and left the rest of them for dead. Gradually Loonie and Pike got to know this loner, Sando, who took them under his wing, showing them secret beaches and ever-bigger waves. He taught them about surfing, and about life. But the sea can teach the hard way, and so could Sando. In the endless search for the biggest wave, the biggest high, some riders don't make it. Half a lifetime later, Pike can't free himself from where the ride took him."
  • "A story of adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limit against nature and the power of the sea, and being with like-minded souls."@en
  • "A story of adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's limit against nature and the power of the sea, and being with like-minded souls."
  • "Bruce Pike, or 'Pickelet', has lived in all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night. He longs to be down there on the beach, admist the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him. It's only when he befriends Loonie, the local wild boy, that he finally defies them. Intoxicated by the power of the sea and by their own youthful endurance, the two boys spurn all limits and rules, and fall into the company of adult mentors whose own addictions to risk take them to places they could never have imagined. Caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist, Pikelet faces challenges whose effects will far outlast his adolescence."
  • "Bruce Pike can hear the sea at night and longs to go to the shore. When he befriends Loonie, his small town's wild boy, that dream is realized. Together, intoxicated by the treacherous power of the waves and by the immortality of youth, the two boys defy all limits and rules."
  • "Falling under the spell of an enigmatic extreme-sports surfer, a thrill-seeking pair of western Australian adolescents is initiated into a world of high-stakes adventures and dangerous boundary testing."
  • "On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrillseeking and barely adolescent boys fall into the enigmatic thrall of veteran big-wave surfer Sando. Together they form an odd but elite trio. The grown man initiates the boys into a kind of Spartan ethos, a regimen of risk and challenge, where they test themselves in storm swells on remote and shark-infested reefs, pushing each other to the edges of endurance, courage, and sanity. But where is all this heading? Why is their mentor's past such forbidden territory? And what can explain his American wife's peculiar behavior? Venturing beyond all limits--in relationships, in physical challenge, and in sexual behavior--there is a point where oblivion is the only outcome. Full of Winton's lyrical genius for conveying physical sensation, Breath is a rich and atmospheric coming-of-age tale from one of world literature's finest storytellers."@en
  • ""Breath is a beautiful, gripping, deeply moving novel about our need for excitement and to push ourselves to the limits; about the power of the sea; and how ordinary people live with tragedy."--Provided by publisher."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Australian fiction"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Literary fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "General / Adventure"
  • "Young adult works"
  • "Coming of age"

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  • "Breath : [a novel]"
  • "Breath : a novel"
  • "Atem : Roman"
  • "Adem"
  • "נשימה"
  • "Breath"
  • "Breath"@en
  • "Respiraţia"
  • "Respire"
  • "Breath : A Novel"
  • "Respiro"
  • "Respiro"@it
  • "Neshimah"
  • "Vdih"@sl
  • "Vdih"
  • "Fôlego"
  • "Lằn ranh sinh ̉tư"
  • "Respirația"
  • "Atem : roman"
  • "Atem Roman"

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