Cloudstreet - Brossura

Winton, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743234413 ISBN 13: 9780743234412

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2002

Riassunto

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,Cloudstreet 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.

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Recensione:

Carolyn See Los Angeles Times Book Review Winton is a one-man band of genius.

Andrew Yule Time Out Nothing short of magnificent...a wonderful read.

Elizabeth Ward The Washington Post Cloudstreet gets you inside the very skin of postwar working-class australians the way joyce makes you feel like a turn-of-the-century dubliner...people get up from where they have fallen, they try, they keep on. above all, they laugh at themselves, sometimes bitterly, but much more often riotously.

L'autore:

Tim Winton was born in Perth, West Australia, in 1960. His novels include An Open Swimmer, Shallows, The Riders, Dirt Music, and That Eye, the Sky.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743234413
• ISBN 13: 9780743234412
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432