Cloudstreet - Softcover

Winton, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330322699 ISBN 13: 9780330322690

Publisher: Pan MacMillan, 1998

Synopsis

Cloudstreet: a broken-down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders and shadows and spirits.

From separate catastrophes, two families flee to the city and find themselves sharing this great sighing structure and beginning their lives again from scratch. Together they roister and rankle in a house that begins as a roof over their heads and becomes a home for their hearts.

`ImagineNeighboursbeing 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

`Winton is just one of the best`Independent

About this title

About the Author:

Tim Winton was born in Perth in 1960. His work includes novels, collections of stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has won the miles Franklin Award three times, and been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, forThe Riders(1995) andDirt Music(2002).

From AudioFile:

With sensitivity and vision, novelist Tim Winton creates an Australian classic that takes the listener into the world of two wholly believable working-class families in post-WWII Perth. The Pickles family inherits, but cannot afford to keep, Cloudstreet, a rambling, ramshackled house--so they take in the Lambs as their boarders. The Pickles are an irreligious, indolent lot, while the Lambs are pious and hard-working. Peter Hosking's performance is true to Winton's unsentimental exploration into humankind's ability to love and survive amid adversity. Hosking handles the mundane and the mystical with equal assurance. His characterizations, including an aboriginal ghost and a talking pig, are earthy, real, and frequently hilarious. Hosking makes the most of Winton's honesty, wit, and original imagery. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0330322699
• ISBN 13: 9780330322690
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 432