Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009
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.
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Five years after the end of
Saving Francesca
This time it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta Coming March 2010
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| Published: |
1 May 2008 |
| Format: |
Hardback
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224 pages
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| RRP: |
$45.00 |
| ISBN-13: |
9780241015308 |
| Imprint: |
Hamish Hamilton |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Aus. |
| Origin: |
Australia |
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Category:
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Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Awards:
- 2009
- Short-listed
Best Book
- 2009
- Short-listed
Christina Stead Award
- 2009
- Winner
Literary Fiction
- 2009
- Short-listed
Literary Fiction
- 2009
- Short-listed
Book of the Year
- 2009
- Short-listed
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- 2008
- Short-listed
Fiction
- 2008
- Winner
Fiction
- 2008
- Winner
Fiction
- 2008
- Winner
Book of the Year
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