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Breaktime (novel)

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Breaktime
First edition
AuthorAidan Chambers
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDance Sequence
GenreYoung adult novel
PublisherBodley Head
Publication date
1978
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages138
ISBN0-370-30122-6
Followed byDance 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

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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

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  1. ^ "Breaktime". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
  2. ^ "About us".[permanent dead link]
  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 2010
  5. ^ BREAKTIME by Aidan Chambers, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published March 1, 1979