A young man learns what it is to be extraordinary, how to push himself, mind and body, to the limit in terrible fear and exhilaration, and how to mask the emptiness of leaving such intensity - in love and in life - behind. Breath is the story of lost youth recollected: its attractions, its compulsions, its moments of heartbreak and of madness. Caught up in love and friendship and an erotic current he cannot resist, Pikelet faces challenges whose effects will far outlast his adolescence. Intoxicated by the treacherous power of the sea and by their own youthful endurance, the two boys spurn all limits and rules, and fall into the company of adult mentors whose own addictions to risk take them to places they could never have imagined. It's only when he befriends Loonie, the local wild boy, that he finally defies them. He longs to be down there on the beach, amidst the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him. Bruce Pike, or `Pikelet', has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night.
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