01467cam a2200217 a 4500001000700000003000900007003000900016005001700025008004100042020001800083040003900101100001700140245001800157264003000175300002400205520091100229650003401140650002801174651002401202655002301226599842PH-MaWHOPH-MaWHO20241108112733.0911030r19921991mnu           000 1 eng    a9780330322690  aDLCcWPRO LibrarydDLCdOCoLCdDLC1 aWinton, Tim.10aCloudstreet /  aLondon :bPicador,c1992.  a430 pages ;c24 cm.  aHailed 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. 0aBlue collar workersxFiction. 0aWorking classxFiction. 0aAustraliaxFiction. 7aAllegories.2gsafd