 First edition | |
| Author | Aidan Chambers |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Dance Sequence |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Bodley Head |
| Publication date | 1978 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| 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.
The novel has been described as "famous for its unique narrative style and sexual content", and its narrative techniques have been compared to those of James Joyce's Ulysses.
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".
References
- "Breaktime". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
- "About us".
- 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
- Reviews 2010: Reading the Novels of Aidan Chambers: Seven Essays, by Lydia Kokkola; at the International Research Society for Children's Literature; published 2010
- BREAKTIME by Aidan Chambers, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published March 1, 1979
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