Posted on 21/06/08
Risky business - in fact, reckless
BREATHBy Tim WintonHarperCollins Canada,205 pages, $26.95In the annals of literature, sullen young men seem to come of age, for the most part, through bouts of exalted sulking. Whether Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther or Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, inward angst finds expression only in doomed love affairs and arguments with incapable parents, sometimes an extended journey or a drug addiction. Perhaps these characters take after the indoors-centred lives of most novelists.
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