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Breath
Tim Winton

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Breath

Penguin (Apr 2008)
9780241015308
| Hardcover
216 pages | 160 x 250 mm | Australia | English
Dewey A823.3
LC Classification PR9619.3.W585 .B73 2008

Subject

  • Death
  • Fiction / Coming Of Age
  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Psychological
  • Suicide

Plot

When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident.

Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. He understands only too well the forces that can propel a kid toward oblivion. Not just because he's an ambulance-man but because of the life he's lived, the boy he once was, addicted to extremes, flirting with death, pushing every boundary in the struggle to be extraordinary, barely knowing where or how to stop.

So begins a story about the damage you do to yourself when you're young and think you're immortal.