Breaktime (novel)

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Breaktime
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First edition
Author Aidan Chambers
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDance Sequence
Genre Young adult literature
Publisher The Bodley Head
Publication date
1978
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages138
ISBN 0-370-30122-6
Followed by Dance on My Grave  

Breaktime is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers. The book follows Ditto who debates with his friend Morgan about the value of literature, but has to retreat for a week to sort things out. [1] [2]

The novel has been described as "famous for its unique narrative style and sexual content", [3] and its narrative techniques have been compared to those of James Joyce's Ulysses . [4]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews praised "the ease with which Chambers adapts modernist experimental techniques and post-modernist plays on the conventions of fiction to an accessible YA level", and noted that Ditto was a "candid reporter, alert and responsive come-what-may". [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Breaktime". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  2. ↑ "About us". Archived from the original on September 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Aidan Chambers' "Breaktime": Class Conflict and Anxiety in the Work of a Scholarship-Boy Writer, by Haru Takiuchi; Children's Literature in Education , v47 n1 p36-49 Mar 2016
  4. ↑ Reviews 2010: Reading the Novels of Aidan Chambers: Seven Essays, by Lydia Kokkola; at the International Research Society for Children's Literature; published in 2010
  5. ↑ BREAKTIME by Aidan Chambers, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews ; published on March 1, 1979
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