Cloudstreet - Softcover

Tim, Winton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743234413 ISBN 13: 9780743234412

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description:

Cloudstreet From separate catastrophes, two rural Australian families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again. Full description

Review:

Elizabeth Ward The Washington Post Cloudstreet gets you inside the very skin of postwar working-class australians the way joyce makes you feel like a turn-of-the-century dubliner...people get up from where they have fallen, they try, they keep on. above all, they laugh at themselves, sometimes bitterly, but much more often riotously. Andrew Yule Time Out Nothing short of magnificent...a wonderful read. Carolyn See Los Angeles Times Book Review Winton is a one-man band of genius.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743234413
• ISBN 13: 9780743234412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432