Tim winton cloud street5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The windfall came at a low point in his life - he’d recently lost the fingers on one hand in a fishing accident, limiting his options for employment. It’s a large ramshackle building, a “great continent” of a house inherited by Sam Pickles along with a cash bequest of £2000. ![]() ![]() Both families leave their rural homes as a result of personal tragedies, ending up sharing Number 1 Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Nor can I vouch for the authenticity and accuracy of Winton’s portrayal of life in a particular period of time - roughly speaking, from the end of WW2 to the early sixties.įortunately, unlike thousands of Australian schoolchildren faced with Winton’s award-winning novel, I could just enjoy the book and not worry too much about its status in the canon of literature.Ĭloudstreet offers us a portrait of two working class families: the Pickles and the Lambs. The introduction to my edition actually goes one step further - Philip Hensher calls Cloudstreet “A Great Australian Novel”that “speaks for a nation” by showing its contradictions and complexities.Īs a geographic outsider I’m not the best reader to judge whether such bold claims are warranted. ![]() Type “Cloudstreet” into a search engine and you’ll see it described over and over again as a classic of Australian fiction. ![]()
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