Author | Aidan Chambers |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Dance Sequence |
Genre | Young adult novel |
Publisher | Bodley Head |
Publication date | 1978 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 138 |
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]
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]