false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173909460m/343881.jpg 343881 20 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, <I>Cloudstreet</I> 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. 1154594 1991 Cloudstreet : A Novel total:762|5:286|4:276|3:138|2:45|1:17| 762 3055 1169 122 5 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Oct 31 10:37:50 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 10:43:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 08 18:06:28 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 16:32:18 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 18:06:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 20 08:25:33 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 21 03:50:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 09:27:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 09:47:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 14:44:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:03:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 03:10:48 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 00:45:28 -0700 2009 One Hundred Years of Solitude it does capture something of Australia and the Australian psyche, particularly the Anglo-Celtic aspect in that period just after the war. Winton's language is...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 07:17:55 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 02:39:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 02 22:56:47 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 19:17:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 31 07:36:26 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 28 03:50:25 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 09:14:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 15:07:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 13 07:43:08 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 07:52:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jun 07 13:56:07 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 23:57:11 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 13:22:34 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 11:56:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:52:30 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:56:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 03:23:33 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 10:30:38 -0800 2008 http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6473...

Even after 426 pages I am still not sure if I ever really understood what all the background themes in this family saga meant. The ending left me just as confused as the start if I am honest.
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this book really is poetic, and i mean that in the ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Tue Aug 25 19:55:54 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 19:57:27 -0700 2009 i don't like the way that tim winton writes, with no "speech marks".
it drives me crazy.

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