Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.
After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united and - until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish - religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.
Chance, hardship and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives.
'One of the great masterpieces of world fiction.' Philip Hensher
'If you have not read Cloudstreet, your life is diminished . . . if you have not met these characters, this generous community, these tragedies, the humour. It is so wonderful.' Mem Fox
Format: Paperback | 480 pages
Dimensions (cm): 21 x 13.9 x 2 | 394g
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint: Picador
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0140273980
ISBN13: 9780140273984
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. There is very, very minor discolouring on a very small handful of pages. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.