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Original Title:	Cloudstreet
ISBN:	0743234413 (ISBN13: 9780743234412)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Perth, Western Australia(Australia)
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award (1992), National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1991)

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

Paperback | Pages: 426 pages

Rating: 4 | 19333 Users | 1407 Reviews

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Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire.

Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans -- running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth -- bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated.

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Title	:	Cloudstreet
Author	:	Tim Winton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 426 pages
Published	:	June 6th 2002 by Scribner (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics

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Ratings: 4 From 19333 Users | 1407 Reviews

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Tim Wintons 1991 novel Cloudstreet seems to have an extraordinary reputation in Australia. It has been adapted for television, theatre, and opera, and it is a staple of Australian high school literature curricula. Its Wikipedia entry lists four polls between 2003 and 2012 in which it was voted the nations favourite Australian novel. I felt rather sheepish when I came across it recently; I hadnt heard of it, or Tim Winton, before.Its an impressive piece of work, and I can see why people love it.



Not to be hyperbolic, but I adore this book and I wish I could score it even more highly! I read it for class and I spent quite a few more hours on it than most readers will, but if you enjoy it on the first read, I recommend giving it another read or so. The Biblical allusions are complex and unsettling. The prose is visceral and grounded. I felt so immersed and connected to the people and the land in this book. In fact, I kind of want to read it again right now, just thinking about it. There

I may be worse on Australian lit than any other country on earth. I've read more books from Tajikistan than from Australia. I'll fix it eventually. This will help.

(4.5) A gritty family epic in post-war Perth, Australia during the 1940's-1960's. Tim Winton's writing is so unique. He is brilliant with his ability to take the story to depths and directions you wouldn't have thought possible. This story was a whole lot of everything: gritty, weird, raw, quick-witted, endearing. The cast of characters are not ones you'd imagine being drawn towards, but Winton almost dares you not to care about them! He gives you a whole lot of the 'weird/not so charming' to

I really had to waffle around in considering how to rate this. There's really some of the best gritty, realistic and poetic writing I've ever read interspersed with some moments of ham-fisted "wise-dickery" (to use Winton's own word). I had to put the book aside three times when I first started it but once I really got into it, I couldn't put it down. Soon though, as it progressed, I gradually lost interest and found myself crawling to the finish line. I never developed anything more than a

This is a great, sprawling, epic family saga that makes you glad you're a reader, just so you can live the lives of these characters for the length of the novel. It's 20 years in the lives of the Lambs and the Pickles, who share a house in Perth, Australia. Not that I' m comparing Tim Winton to Tolstoy, but just like "War and Peace", this novel encompasses every emotion and human foible and goodness in mankind. Pick an adjective; it' s in this book. You ll love and hate and grow old and die,