Browse the Library: Cloudstreet: A Novel
| Title: | Cloudstreet: A Novel |
| Categories: | General Fiction |
| BookID: | 5731 |
| Authors: | Tim Winton |
| ISBN-10(13): | 9780743234412 |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Publication date: | 2002-06-06 |
| Edition: | Reprint |
| Number of pages: | 432 |
| Language: | English |
| Price: | 53.73 USD |
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Product Description Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire. Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans -- running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth -- bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated. |