![]() ![]() ![]() “cloudstreet” is written in a language I will call Australian. I decided then and there that I must read Tim Winton and especially “cloudstreet” as soon as possible. On three of the four lists, “cloudstreet” was Number One. “She’s ad enough kids, said the women of the street.īut the real reason remained a mystery, even to Oriel Lamb.”Ī while back Whispering Gums printed the results of several different polls of the top ten Australian novels of all time. But Oriel Lamb, the Lamb wife and mother and also an enterprising storekeeper, moves out to a big white tent in the front yard. In “cloudstreet”, two families divide up this big old house, the Pickles and the Lambs. “cloudstreet” is about this second group of people. Then there were those I will call the “ne’er do wells” about whom you heard just about every wild and crazy story imaginable. ![]() There were the respectable families about whom you usually did not hear a whisper of gossip their lives were to all appearances very proper and boring. When I was a kid, there were two kinds of relatives and neighbors. “cloudstreet” by Tim Winton (1991) – 426 pages ![]()
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