Cloudstreet

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"A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell it." - The Sunday Telegraph 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."In this fresh, funny novel, full of wonder and dreams, Tim Winton weaves the threads of lifetimes, of twenty years of shouting and fighting, laughing and grafting, into a story about acceptance and belonging. Imagine Neighbours being taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and you'll be close to the heart of Winton's impressive tale." - Time Out“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 PostWinner 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. Winner Of Australia's Prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet Is Tim Winton's Great Family Drama, A Twenty-year Story Of Life And Love, Full Of Boisterous Energy, Joy And Heartbreak. His Visceral Evocation Of The Australian Landscape Is Nowhere More Extraordinary Than In This Classic. With An Introduction By Philip Hensher. Will You Look At Us By The River! The Whole Restless Mob Of Us On Spread Blankets In The Dreamy Briny Sunshine Skylarking And Chiacking About For One Day, One Clear, Clean, Sweet Day In A Good World In The Midst Of Our Living. No. 1 Cloudstreet: A Broken-down House On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks, A Place Teeming With Memories, With Shudders And Shadows And Spirits. From Separate Catastrophes, Two Families – The Pickles And Lambs – Flee To The City And Find Themselves Thrown Together, Forced To Start Their Lives Afresh. As They Roister And Rankle, The Place That Began As A Roof Over Their Heads Becomes A Home For Their Hearts. As dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 'Magnificent' - The New York Times Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic. No. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes, two families – the Pickles and Lambs – flee to the city and find themselves thrown together, forced to start their lives afresh. As they roister and rankle, the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts. With an introduction by Philip Hensher