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Cloudstreet

Tim Winton, Philip Hensher

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Tim Winton's great family drama.

As dramatized on BBC Radio 4Winner of the Miles Franklin Award'Magnificent' - The New York TimesCloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a twenty-year story of life and love, full of boisterous energy, joy and heartbreak. His visceral evocation of the Australian landscape is nowhere more extraordinary than in this classic.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 - flee to the city and find themselves thrown together, forced to start their lives afresh. As they roister and rankle, the place that began as a roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.With an introduction by Philip Hensher

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
ISBN:
9781447275305
Published Date:
1/1/2015
Dimensions:
197mm x 132mm x 31mm
Weight:
302g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781447275305


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