Cloudstreet - Softcover

Winton, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0869143352 ISBN 13: 9780869143353

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.

After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.

Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives.

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognized as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.

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Review:

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Winton is a one-man band of genius."--Carolyn See, "Los Angeles Times
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"""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."--Elizabeth Ward, "The Washington Post"

"Nothing short of magnificent...A wonderful read."--Andrew Yule, "Time Out" (New York)

"One of my favorite novels."--Nancy Pearl

Winton is a one-man band of genius. "Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times"

"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. "Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post"

Nothing short of magnificent...A wonderful read. "Andrew Yule, Time Out (New York)"

One of my favorite novels. "Nancy Pearl""

Winton is a one-man band of genius. Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

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. Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post

Nothing short of magnificent...A wonderful read. Andrew Yule, Time Out (New York)

One of my favorite novels. Nancy Pearl

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"Winton is a one-man band of genius." --Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

"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." --Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post

"Nothing short of magnificent...A wonderful read." --Andrew Yule, Time Out (New York)

"One of my favorite novels." --Nancy Pearl

Book Description:

The modern Australian classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0869143352
• ISBN 13: 9780869143353
• Binding: Paperback