Showing Breath by Tim Winton

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-1-1 Pages: 246 Bruce Pike can hear the sea at night and longs to go to theshore When he befriends Loonie. his small towns wild boy. thatdream is realized Together. intoxicated by the treacherous powerof.. . the waves and by the immortality of youth. the two boys defy alllimits and rules Pikelet learns what it is to be extraordinary. feels exhilaration for the very first time. and - caught up in loveand friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist - heunderstands the true meaning of fear These are experiences thatwill far outlast his adolescence How. then. to mask the emptinessof leaving such intensity behind A love letter to the sea and amoving coming-of-age story ... Rapturous -.. Sunday Telegraph.Breath has the sensibility and reach of an epic -. Scotland onSunday Full of fizz and a vital poetry of sun. sand. sea andair -. Independent on Sund...