Fb2 Breath ePub
by Tim Winton
Category: | Literary |
Subcategory: | Fiction |
Author: | Tim Winton |
ISBN: | 1554680948 |
ISBN13: | 978-1554680948 |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (June 2, 2009) |
Pages: | 272 |
Fb2 eBook: | 1926 kb |
ePub eBook: | 1929 kb |
Digital formats: | doc rtf azw mobi |
Breath is the twentieth book and the eighth novel by Australian author Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany
Breath is the twentieth book and the eighth novel by Australian author Tim Winton. His first novel in seven years, it was published in 2008, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, the Netherlands and Germany. The novel is set in a small Western Australian logging village named Sawyer, near the fictional coastal town of Angelus, which has featured in several of Winton's works, including Shallows and The Turning
That was the first of many such days and we were friends and rivals from then on.
Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist
Tim Winton is Australia’s most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. His new work, Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes-extreme sports and extreme emotions.
FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Now a Major Motion Picture, Starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh Breath is a story of risk. His new work, Breath, is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency.
Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, Tim Winton is Australia’s best-loved novelist.
Breath is a 2017 film adaptation of Australian author Tim Winton's novel Breath. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2017 Zurich Film Festival, and was released on 1 June 2018 by FilmRise. The film is set in the. The film is set in the 1970s and two teenage boys form a connection with an older surfer. The boys Pikelet and Loonie have grown up in a small town and through surfing met up with Sando, who challenges them to take greater and more dangerous risks.
On the forecast maps it looked like a tumour on the sea between us and the southern iceshelf. The moment he saw it Sando began planning our attempt on the Nautilus. On the Saturday and Sunday before. the front arrived the swell in its path hadn't yet gathered momentum. We'd have to wait for the passage of the storm and catch the swell in its wake. Which meant I'd have to wag school if I wanted to make the trip. Before the wind had even stirred the trees I knew I wasn't ready for the Nautilus
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran big-wave surfer, and his enigmatic wife, Eva, the two adults initiate the boys into forbidden worlds of peril, testing the boundaries of athleticism, friendship, sexuality and mortality.
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.
P.S. to include
• extended author biography
• essay about the pleasure and power of surfing
• in-depth interview with Winton about his writing career, his experience of nearly drowning and much more. . .