Tim Winton - Cloudstreet

Details
Paperback - Used

Rating
4.0/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet where they begin their lives again from scratch. 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. Winner of the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards in Australia, Cloudstreet is a celebration of people, places and rhythms which has fuelled imaginations world-wide.

"Cloudstreet gets you inside the very skin of post-war working-class Australians the way Joyce makes you feel like a turn-of-the-century Dubliner... People get up from where they have fallen, they try, they keep on. Above all, they laugh at themselves, sometimes bitterly, but much more often riotously. Cloudstreet is a hilarious book." - Elizabeth Ward
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"It is, I suspect, a masterpiece." - Veronica Brady