Miles Franklin Literary Award まいるず・ふらんくりん ぶんがくしょう
Edition 50 (2009)
Literary awardNovelAustralian literatureFiction
Winners
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Timothy John Winton
Winner
Breath is a story of adolescent risk and self-discovery through surfing. It explores the pull of masculinity, dangerous adventure, and the uneasy balance between salvation and ruin through the relationship between a younger boy and an older mentor.
A boy tests his limits in the pull of waves and danger.
288 pages
adolescence and growthsurfing culturemasculinity and risknature and self-discovery