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Cloudstreet - Picador Classic
Cloudstreet - Picador Classic
paperback
Published:
1 January, 2015
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Description
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
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781447275305 |
| ISBN10 | 1447275306 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 302 g |
| Product Dimensions | 132 x 197 x 31 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A generous watery epic . . . Winton is just one of the best * Independent *
Imagine Neighbours being taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel García Márquez and you'll be close to the heart of Winton's impressive tale * Time Out *
Brimful of wonderful characters and radiates with the warmth and generosity of the human spirit and the pathos of individual lives. Never sentimental Winton is a masterful storyteller with an enormous heart -- Mariella Frostrup
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 * Sunday Telegraph *
He is a novelist, a great one, because against all evidence and odds, he reminds us what it is to be human, and reminds us to be proud of our humanity . . . Winton is a one-man band of genius * Los Angeles Times *
Nothing short of magnificent . . . A wonderful read * New York Times *
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Author's Bio
Tim Winton has published twenty-five 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). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.