Cloudstreet
15 December 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award
‘Magnificent’ – The New York Times
‘Winton is just one of the best’ – Independent
Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's epic family drama, a story of love and turmoil spanning decades.
No. 1 Cloudstreet: a broken-down house on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories, with shudders and shadows and spirits. From separate catastrophes,...
Details
15 December 2014448 pages
9781447275312Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A generous watery epic . . . Winton is just one of the bestIndependent
Imagine Neighbours being taken over by the writing team of John Steinbeck and Gabriel García Márquez and you'll be close to the heart of Winton's impressive taleTime Out
Brimful of wonderful characters and radiates with the warmth and generosity of the human spirit and the pathos of individual lives. Never sentimental Winton is a masterful storyteller with an enormous heartMariella Frostrup
A fragmented, hilarious, crude, mystical soap opera. In a rich Australian idiom, Winton lets his characters rip against an evocation of Perth so intense you can smell itThe Sunday Telegraph
