Cloudstreet: A Novel
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.BUY THE BOOK
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Really loved the audio version of this book as I got the full-on Ozzy accent from actor Peter Hosking- wacko!! Fascinating portait of two families spanning decades living in the same divided house.
I read not listened to this Australian novel based around Perth WA. It covers approximately 25 years from early 1940 the Lambs (3 children) and the Pickleses sic (6 children) from the lower level of society. They end up sharing a large rundown house of the book title. It covers the very lows and the rare highs of family fortunes. I found it quite difficult to read and started to flag about half way through and think it is 100 pages too long. Most of my reading is books with plots and that’s probably why I struggled with this one which is more of a documentary. Having said all this the book is very well written and you are drawn into the lives of these characters and there is a sad ending. P.S. there isn’t any speech punctuation.
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