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Cloudstreet : A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 41709
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0743234413
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743234412
ASIN: 0743234413
Publication Date: June 6, 2002
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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.
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 Amazing. November 11, 2008
This is my first review on amazon.com. Why this book, why now? Because THIS is the book I can't stop telling people about. THIS is the kind of novel I always look for but don't often find. I can't believe that I had never heard of Winton, nor of this book, until recently. I can't add much to the well-written reviews above, except to agree with those who consider this book a classic.
Finest kind and then some November 3, 2008
For the last several days I've been reading, wallowing in and savoring Tim Winton's Cloudstreet. Should the name Winton ring a bell, it might be because it was much remarked by critics and sundry that his most recent novel, Breath, wasn't even longlisted for the Booker. Ai de mi.
Winton an antipodean of the Australian persuasion and, near as I can tell, has been writing since he was knee-high to grasshopper since he's only 48 and has a string of novels behind him as long as your arm. I've read three of `em from various periods; Cloudstreet is my fourth and earliest from 1991. I've not hit a bum note yet with Winton; he's got the gift of story, the grace of language in its multiple manifestions, eyes that see as clearly in hindsight as foresight. He's not magic so much as he is its counter-clockwise extension of pragmatism that swings so pronounced as to come around to, maybe, magic.
Cloudstreet is the special sort of book that doesn't come around often. Finest kind, in fact.
 a lyrical journey October 15, 2008
What a beautiful, lyrical journey this book takes you though. I even cried at one point. The author describes his landscapes so well it creates a new dimension for the mind.
very real August 23, 2008
I've heard this described as 'the great Australian novel'. While not sure I fully agree I certainly rate it very highly. The book evokes Australia very strongly and in great detail. As an expat Australian I felt somehow at home... each of the interesting and complex, yet wholly real and easily related to characters had elements of people I've known. The way it is written is very thoughtful and empathetic, yet the language manages to stay low key and (as other reviewers have noted) loaded with Aussie slang which made it fun to read.
The storyline is engaging, sweeping and epic. I found myself rejoicing at the ups and frowning at the downs they experienced, and admiring the strength of just about all of them at one time or another. The only thing I didn't like was one or two of the plot turns. Rose's reconciliation with her mother seemed a little put on, for example. But it's the characters that made this story for me. On the whole, a very enjoyable read.
ONE NEVER TO FORGET August 2, 2008
WHY didn't this novel win the Booker Prize? Reading Winton is the happiest and most startling relationship I've had with books since first reading Cormac McCarthy. Simply amazing!
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