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    Breath

    Written by Tim Winton

    Narrated by Troy Planet

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and now a major film.

    When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his colleague, better than the kid's parents, what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. A relentlessly gripping and deeply moving novel about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.

    “An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel, a meditation on surfing which becomes a rumination about the very stuff of existence””
    THE OBSERVER

    “This brilliant book may well turn out to be the finest thing that Winton has done”
    SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

    “It's unlikely Winton has ever written as well as he writes in Breath . . . Its seeming simplicity is deceptive, for beneath its pared-back surfaces lies all the steel of a major novelist operating at full throttle in a territory he has spent 25 years making his own.”
    THE AGE

    “Breath is about moving out of your depth, getting in over your head, having your soul damaged beyond repair . . . But against all this pointless sorrow, there remains the evanescent beauty of the world, and Winton matches that with limitlessly beautiful prose”
    WASHINGTON POST
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781528815048
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    Breath
    Author

    Tim Winton

    Tim Winton grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live. He is the author of eighteen books. His epic novel Cloudstreet was adapted for the theater and has been performed around the world. His two most recent novels, Dirt Music and The Riders, were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award three times, and in 1998 the Australian National Trust declared Winton a national living treasure. The Turning has already won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

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    • 5/5
      A great story, let down a little by the narrator’s occasional poor phrasing and timing. One would have thought that breath control would have been an important factor in the narration, considering the theme and title of the book.

      Other than that, a timeless and fascinating tale.
    • 5/5
      I loved the film but found myself enjoying the audiobook much more. Narration was brilliant. Definitely worth the listen.