num_pages: 426
description: 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 - 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. Winner of Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin Award, Cloudstreet 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.
language: English
title: Cloudstreet
titlecomplete: Cloudstreet
genres: Family, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 24574
places: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Council Banjo Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Group (Australia)