Breath

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Tim Winton: Breath (2008, Hamish Hamilton)

English language

Published Aug. 3, 2008 by Hamish Hamilton.

OCLC Number:
116293819
Goodreads:
5395739

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4 stars (6 reviews)

Breath is the twentieth book and 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.

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3 stars

Kinda meh.

Full review soon.

This Australian novelist, touted on the back blurb as the "greatest living Australian novelist", was not on my radar screen at all until recently. Then, in that way of things, he popped up in like 3 or 4 different social media conversations as someone I simply must read. So, being that kind of guy, I promptly put a few of his books on my To Read pile and requested this one to be sent to my library.

It is a pretty slim novel about a boy's adolescence in Western Australia. He falls in with a slightly older wild child and they both fall under the spell of a laid back surfer dude, where they proceed to shred some waves, talk big talk and, eventually, he gets laid.

Now I didn't know this was how the book was going to work out. I didn't read much …