Breath
Author:
Winton Tim
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.
Breath 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.
In his first novel for seven years, Tim Winton has achieved a new level of mastery. 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.
Published: 1 May 2008 Format: Hardback , 224 pages RRP: $45.00 ISBN-13: 9780241015308
Tim Winton (Author)
Tim Winton has published twenty books for adults and
children, and his work has been translated into sixteen
languages. Since his first novel An Open Swimmer won the
Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles
Franklin Award three times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet
and Dirt Music) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker
Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). His latest
novel, Breath, is his first in seven years. He lives in
Western Australia.
Praise for Breath
'Breath may prove to be the best thing Winton has done'
Andrew Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald
'It's unlikely Winton has ever written as well as he writes in Breath'
James Bradley, The Age
'Winton's best writing since Cloudstreet ... irresistible and elemental'
Australian Book Review
Awards
For Adults:
Dirt Music
Shortlisted - 2002 Man Booker Prize
Shortlisted - 2002 Kiriyama Prize
Winner - 2002 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Winner - 2002 Christina Stead Award, N.S.W. Premier's Literary Award
Winner - 2001 WA Premier's Award - Book of the Year
Winner - 2001 WA Premier's Award - Fiction
Winner - 2001 Good Reading Award - Readers Choice Book of the Year
Winner - 2001 Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award
The Turning
Shortlisted - 2005 Inaugural Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Commended - 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book
Winner - 2005 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Fiction Book
Winner - 2005 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize
Joint Winner - 2004 Colin Roderick Award
The Riders
Shortlisted - 1995 Booker Prize
Winner - 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region)
Cloudstreet
Winner - 1991 NBC Banjo Award for Literature
Winner - 1992 Deo Gloria Award
Winner -1991 Miles Franklin Award
Joint Winner - 1991 WA Premier's Book Award - Fiction
Minimum of Two and Other Stories
Winner - 1988 WA Premier's Book Award - Fiction
Scission and Other Stories
Joint Winner - 1985 WA Premier's Book Award - Fiction
Winner - 1985 Western Australian Council Literary Award
Shallows
Winner - 1984 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Joint Winner - 1985 WA Premier's Book Award - Fiction
An Open Swimmer
Winner - 1981 Australian/Vogel National Literary Award
For Children and Young Adults:
Lockie Leonard, Legend
Winner - 1998 Family Award for Children's Literature
Blueback
Winner - 1998 Bolinda Audio Book Awards
Winner - 1998 Wilderness Society Environment Award
Winner - 1999 WAYRBA Hoffman Award for Young Readers
Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
Winner - 1993 Wilderness Society Environment Award
The Buglalugs Bum Thief
Winner - 1994 CROW Award (Children Reading Outstanding Writers): Focus list (Years 3-5)
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
Winner - 1993 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award
Winner - 1996 YABBA Awards: Fiction for Older Readers
Joint winner - 1991 WA Premier's Book Award: Children's Book
Jesse
Winner - 1990 WA Premier's Book Award: Children's Book