Winton reads
Listen to Tim Winton reading from Breath, his first novel in seven years, on the Herald Sun website. While not a YA novel, for reasons explained in the Fiction Focus review, many passages of Winton’s lyrical prose would be enjoyed by teenagers as exemplars of descriptive writing. Who has described the spiritual experience of surfing better?
The accompanying book trailer gives a profound sense of place – the beauty and the menace of the landscape of Western Australia’s south west.
