Cloudstreet - Softcover

Winton, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555971830 ISBN 13: 9781555971830

Publisher: Graywolf Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Tells the story of the Pickles and the Lambs, two families marked by tragedy as they weather the vagaries of life and chance, and of Fish Lamb, endowed with strange powers after his mind is damaged in a drowning accident

About this title

About the Author:

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published twenty-four books, 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.

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: Graywolf Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1555971830
• ISBN 13: 9781555971830
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 426