Breath

Tim Winton · 2008 CE · Novel · Australian · Contemporary

A paramedic looks back at the 1970s, when as a boy in a Western Australian timber town he fell in with an older surfer and took on bigger and more dangerous waves. The mentor's risk-taking and the mentor's wife draw him into a darker adolescence.

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