Breath
By: Tim Winton.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780374116347
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Surfers -- Fiction; Australia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: We come sweeping up the tree-lined boulevard with sirens and lights and when the GPS urges us to make the next left we take it so fast that all the gear slams and sways inside the vehicle.
Description: When a paramedic on a late shift comes across a dead teenager, it brings back a rush of adolescent memories. Breath charts the stories of Piklet and Loonie as they push the boundaries as boys often do, pitting themselves against Western Australia's biggest surf.  A story of isolation, lust, salt and growing up.