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",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 and its narrative techniques have been compared to those of James Joyce's Ulysses.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
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".BREAKTIME by Aidan Chambers, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published on March 1, 1979
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