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Now a Major Motion Picture, Starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh
Breath is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution-in sports, relationships, and sex-each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.
Breath is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall under the spell of a veteran big-wave surfer named Sando. Their mentor urges them into a regiment of danger and challenge, and the boys test themselves and each other on storm swells and over shark-haunted reefs. The boys give no thought to what they could lose, or to the demons that drive their mentor on into ever-greater danger. Venturing beyond all caution-in sports, relationships, and sex-each character approaches a point from which none of them will return undamaged.
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Reviews
"Majestic . . . charged with physical danger, physical courage, and Winton's brand of rugged introspection."
The New York Review of Books
"Plunge into this novel and you, too, will be pulled under."
The Miami Herald
"Stunning in the depth of its audacity...Limitlessly beautiful prose."
The Washington Post Book World