{"product_id":"9780140273984","title":"Cloudstreet","description":"Author: Winton, Tim\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780140273984\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Jan 1998\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is that rare book, a novel of both heart and intellect. It pulses with a sense of wonder and shines with the clear light of truth.' \u003cb\u003eRobert Drewe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e   After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the  country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious,  united and - until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish -  religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely  landlords.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChance, hardship and the war force them to swallow  their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called  Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh  and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as  they can to make their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'One of the great masterpieces of world fiction.' \u003cb\u003ePhilip Hensher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'If you have not read \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e, your life is diminished . . . if you have not met these characters, this generous community, these tragedies, the humour. It is so wonderful.' \u003cb\u003eMem Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48128386498718,"sku":"UBD-9780140273984","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780140273984.jpg?v=1786539872","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780140273984","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}