Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books) Austrlia. 2008
Well, who knew where that was going? It (and i won't ruin it for anyone) is pretty tough subject matter to make believable / palatable. Poetic prose, as you would expect from Tim Winton.
I had a premonition about drugs from the magically appearing surfboards and the absence of work in Sando and Eva's life.
Interesting use of retrospect. The man tells about his adolescence with some hindsight. The interior of the book is his youth and the grown up sections at the beginning and end are like book ends. I almost forgot his paramedic character when I was with Pikelet.
The theme - the courting of danger and the need for increased risk - was thoroughly explored.
Eva was my least favourite character. I'm still not so sure she was believable. The reader only gets to know her as a love interest.
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