Description: Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. It chronicles the lives of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come to live together in a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia, over a period of twenty years, 1943 to 1963. The novel received several awards, including a Miles Franklin Award in 1992, and has been adapted into various forms, including a stage play and a television miniseries. Cloudstreet was the recipient of the National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction, the Western Australian Fiction Award and the Deo Gloria Award in 1991, and a Miles Franklin Award in 1992.[12] In 2003, members of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted Cloudstreet as their favourite Australian novel.[13] The same year, Cloudstreet came out on top in a readers' poll organised by the ASA and ABC Radio National.[14] Cloudstreet was the "overwhelming favourite" in the 2010 "ABR Favourite Australian Novel" poll conducted by the Australian Book Review,[15] and in 2012, viewers of First Tuesday Book Club voted Cloudstreet #1 on a list of "10 Aussie Books You Must Read Before You Die".[16] On 5 November 2019, BBC News listed Cloudstreet on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[17]
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Cloudstreet
Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: McPhee Gribble Publishers
Genre: Modern & Contemporary
Topic: drama
Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia
