| Breaktime | |
| Author: | Aidan Chambers |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dance Sequence |
| Genre: | Young adult novel |
| Publisher: | Bodley Head |
| Pub 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]