Cloudstreet - Tim Winton • BookLikes (ISBN:9781447275305)

Cloudstreet

by: Tim Winton (author)

With an introduction by Philip Hensher. Winton's Miles Franklin award-winning masterpiece. 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, two families - the Pickles and Lambs... show more

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Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781447275305

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Pages no: 448

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Academic, School, Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family, Contemporary, Australia

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Edward rated it

9 years ago

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Introduction, by Philip HensherAcknowledgements--CloudstreetAfterword

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All about me rated it

9 years ago

http://Jansson.booklikes.com All about me 5.0 Cloudstreet

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I loved this book. It's a multi-layered story of two families, a river, a house and the beautiful water. It is full of everyday practicalities and supernatural occurrences. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this. I read Breath and while I really enjoyed aspects of that story, I though...

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Crash My Book Party rated it

11 years ago

http://crashmybookparty.booklikes.com Crash My Book Party 4.0 Proud to call Winton an Australian

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So glad that I finally got around to reading this Australian masterpiece. It is an absolute credit to Tim Winton. I enjoy his writing and the imagery it creates. The depth of his characters really makes you feel empathy for them and all their trials and tribulations - when they succeed you want to c...

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basswood rated it

12 years ago

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I really had to waffle around in considering how to rate this. There's really some of the best gritty, realistic and poetic writing I've ever read interspersed with some moments of ham-fisted "wise-dickery" (to use Winton's own word). I had to put the book aside three times when I first started it b...

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Chrissie's Books rated it

12 years ago

http://Chrissie.booklikes.com Chrissie's Books 3.0 Cloudstreet

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Dysfunctional Families Australian Style. Those words are the best I can come up with to depict this book. There are two families living in one house on Cloudstreet near Perth, Australia. This house and these families become the center attraction of the entire neighborhood. Both families are of the w...

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