num_pages: 426
description: Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire.  Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans -- running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth -- bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated.
language: English
title: Cloudstreet
titlecomplete: Cloudstreet
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Australia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Family
ratings_count: 24573
places: Australia, Perth, Western Australia
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Council Banjo Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Scribner