It froths and swirls and boots this story along with a vengeance. Winton grew up on this Australia coast and has recreated its landscape in previous fiction ( Shallows Dirt Music), but Breath features some of his most muscular, weather-beaten prose yet. It's hard to imagine a more formulaic coming-of-age story, but there also won't be a better novel on surfing published anytime soon.
Bidding for the man's approval, these best friends - Loonie and Bruce - ratchet up their daredevilry, eventually shattering the innocence that binds them. Two teenage mill-town boys on Australia's western coast fall under the spell of a 36-year-old drifter and his enigmatic American wife. In Breath, Tim Winton brings their endorphin-soused world to life for the vicarious set. Pitch down a 15-foot wall of water as it detonates beneath you and you'll know why so many surfers have a blissed-out glaze in their eyes. Winton devotes extreme attention to issues of landscape and geography in his novels.
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