Cloudstreet

Author(s): Tim Winton

Modern & Contemporary Literature | Miles Franklin Award (Australian)

  Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. 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. Chance, hardship and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint 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.


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Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows,Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia. Find out more on Facebook

General Fields

  • : 9780140273984
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : Penguin
  • : 0.411
  • : January 1998
  • : 200mm X mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tim Winton
  • : Tim Winton
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 823/.914
  • : 823/.914
  • : en
  • : en
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback