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Me neither. What is an 'own Cloudstreet'? I'm actually serious here - I've never read the book as it postdates my own schooling and I have limited tolerance for Tim Winton's prose.
omg,I thought I was the only one who didn't like Tim Winton.
I was underwhelmed by his prose, and seriously turned off by all the adulation and hagiography. I put him in the same basket as Patrick White, another author I can only tolerate in very small doses.
Cloudstreet is a book based on two very different families who decide to move from the country to the city, where they end up cohabitating in a big house called "Cloudstreet". It follows the two families' trials and tribulations over the next 20 years as they all live in Cloudstreet.
Thanks, appreciate that.