The one talent Pikelet has is the ability to swim well. The child of elderly, conservative parents, Pikelet, as he was known then, always felt estranged from other kids his age.
Afterward, he seeks solace in playing his didjeridoo (a traditional Australian instrument), recalling his childhood in Sawyer.
He has a dream about saving himself from drowning. Called to the home of a boy who has apparently died of suicide, the event triggers something in Bruce. His lifelong penchant for thrill-seeking – which he details over the course of the ensuing story – has been channeled into his career. When we meet Bruce Pike at the beginning of Breath, he is in his fifties, a paramedic, and divorced. There, protagonist Bruce “Pikelet” Pike comes of age especially important to this process is his complicated friendship with “Loonie,” and later an older couple that he meets through his adventures with Loonie. Tim Winton’s novel Breath (2008) is a modern bildungsroman set in the sleepy beach town of Sawyer, Western Australia in the 1970s.
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