‘Reading Cloudstreet for the first time was like a summer dream from which I wished never to wake.’ Gillian Mears ‘A groundbreaking Australian narrative irresistible combination of the domestic and the mythic.’ Thomas Keneally ‘ Cloudstreet is a comic, poignant and intelligent tour de force.’ Jim Crace if you have not met these characters, this generous community, these tragedies, the humour. ‘If you have not read Cloudstreet, your life is diminished. ‘One of the great masterpieces of world fiction.’ Philip Hensher It pulses with a sense of wonder and shines with the clear light of truth.’ Robert Drewe ‘This is that rare book, a novel of both heart and intellect. 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. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.Ĭhance, hardship and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet.
The Lambs are industrious, united and – until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish – religious. (Apr.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.Īfter two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. Winton shows himself a worthy successor to his countryman Martin Boyd, who portrayed the Anglo-Australian society of previous generations. Featuring lyrical passages and rapid-fire, minimally punctuated dialogue, this satiric, affectionate family saga is tragic and hilarious-and often both at once. Following the quirky, deeply etched members of these families-``flamin whackos,'' in Quick Lamb's description-as they forge bonds and undergo travails, Winton explores the haphazard nature of human existence with a quietly focused ferocity. The dilemma is resolved with the sudden arrival of the rigid, God-fearing Lamb family, whom the rather libertine Pickles take in as boarders. Fortunately, the family inherits a rambling old house-the Cloudstreet of the title-in which they can live, although they still lack cash. Sam Pickles earns a modest living mining guano for nitrate until he loses his hand in an accident. ``It moves.'' Considerations of fate and love underlie Winton's ( Shallows ) wry novel, set in Western Australia, about two families thrown together in the years following WW II. ``Luck don't change, love,'' observes Sam Pickles to his daughter Rose.
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