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Original Title:	Cloudstreet
ISBN:	0743234413 (ISBN13: 9780743234412)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Perth, Western Australia(Australia)
Literary Awards:	Miles Franklin Literary Award (1992), National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1991)

Cloudstreet

Tim Winton

Paperback | Pages: 426 pages

Rating: 4 | 19333 Users | 1407 Reviews

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Title	:	Cloudstreet
Author	:	Tim Winton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 426 pages
Published	:	June 6th 2002 by Scribner (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Australia. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics

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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.

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Dysfunctional Families Australian Style. Those words are the best I can come up with to depict this book. There are two families living in one house on Cloudstreet near Perth, Australia. This house and these families become the center attraction of the entire neighborhood. Both families are of the working class; in fact they are lucky if they even have a job. The time period is 1944-1964, so the end of the war and the hard times that followed determine the setting. Life is hard; it is a

In the circular movement of the Ouroboros, or the snake eating its tale, Tim Winton begins Cloudstreet with the picnic scene that he also ends it with; the difference being in the knowledge the reader will gain of the picnickers, and that makes all the difference in the world. Its the story of two families, the Lambs and the Pickles. Sam Pickles, believes in the shifty shadow of God, the maker of good and bad luck. Even though Sam is a gambler and proficient at losing, he believes that when that



Here's how my reading of Cloudstreet progressed:First week: Ok, this is pretty good, I guess.Second week: Hm, I don't know about this.Third week: Oh god, I think I'm going to throw up. Seriously, I think I'm going to throw up and I'm not kidding. Ok, I'm actually gagging on the subway. Fourth week: Ok, I have to read my book, but I know it will make me nauseated. I just know it.Fifth week: GOD this book is a bore.Sixth week: Hey, this is pretty good . . . . Ok, it was going pretty well for a

"Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death."In this novel the author introduces the reader to two dysfunctional working class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who flee the city after separate catastrophes and find refuge under the same roof. Sam Pickles, who recently lost most of a hand in a boating mishap, inherits the sizeable, but ramshackle house on Cloudstreet, however a

(4.5) A gritty family epic in post-war Perth, Australia during the 1940's-1960's. Tim Winton's writing is so unique. He is brilliant with his ability to take the story to depths and directions you wouldn't have thought possible. This story was a whole lot of everything: gritty, weird, raw, quick-witted, endearing. The cast of characters are not ones you'd imagine being drawn towards, but Winton almost dares you not to care about them! He gives you a whole lot of the 'weird/not so charming' to

First off, this is an incredibly hard book for me to rate and review. It started out so strong, I really loved everything about it and couldn't wait to get to know each of the characters in more detail. And there are quite a few characters. The Pickle family and the Lamb family. They come together in an unexpected way when the Pickles move into a large house called Cloudstreet thanks to an inheritance, and because they are poor, they take on the Lambs as tenants. The two families are rather