Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Two families. One house in Perth. Twenty years of ordinary life.
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you want to understand ordinary Australian life through two families who muddle through twenty years together
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Two working-class families share a large house in Perth from 1943 to 1963 — the Lambs and the Pickles, thrown together by accidents and tragedies, building their lives in the ordinary Australian way. Winton writes in a prose that carries the rhythms of Australian vernacular speech, the landscape of the Swan River, the specific texture of postwar Australian working-class life. The most beloved Australian novel of the 20th century and the one that most honestly captures what white Australian life actually felt and smelled and sounded like — without glamour, without pretension, with enormous warmth.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Australia
- Voice
- Written by a Australia author
- Themes
- familyworking-class life
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
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