Waves of pleasure; New fiction 1.(Breath)(Book review) From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 26, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

RICHLY Australian, "Breath" is a classic coming-of-age novel, which is not to pigeonhole the work as small or pat. Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce among many other literary greats have employed the form. Readers who are, like the narrator, adolescent might well enjoy Tim Winton's surf-and-turf tale. But this is also a book for grown-ups.

In a small coastal sawmill town in the 1970s, Bruce Pike, or "Pikelet", forms a friendship with Loonie, an enviably fearless peer with who...

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