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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

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The following information has been sourced from Penguin Australia.

Description:

Two rural families – the Pickles and the Lambs – flee to the city after separate catastrophes. They find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch – and for twenty years, they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.

Tim Winton's funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and acceptance. It is a celebration of people, places and rhythms of life that has become one of Australia's favourite novels.

Cloudstreet has also been adapted for a television mini-series and a stage play.

Penguin Reading Notes

About the Author:

Tim Winton has published twenty-one books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-five 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.

Awards:

NBC Banjo Award for Fiction 1991

West Australian Fiction Award 1991

Miles Franklin Award 1992

Deo Gloria Award 1992

Author Interviews:

Tim Winton interview on Enough Rope (transcript only)

Reviews:

First Tuesday Book Club review (video and transcript plus reader reviews)

Marilyn Anthony: Review of Cloudstreet (1992), Westerly, Volume 37, No. 2, WINTER, 1992, Pages 91 - 93.