Cloudstreet - Couverture souple

Winton, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330322699 ISBN 13 : 9780330322690

Editeur : Picador, 2008

Synopsis

Cloudstreet A generous watery epic ... Winton is just one of the best' Independent Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Tim Winton grew up on the coast of Western Australia, where he continues to live. He is the author of eighteen books. His epic novel Cloudstreet was adapted for the theater and has been performed around the world. His two most recent novels, Dirt Music and The Riders, were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award three times, and in 1998 the Australian National Trust declared Winton a national living treasure. The Turning has already won the 2005 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330322699
• ISBN 13: 9780330322690
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448