![]() ![]() The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. “cloudstreet” by Tim Winton (1991) – 426 pages ![]() When I was a kid, there were two kinds of relatives and neighbors. 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. Then there were those I will call the “ne’er do wells” about whom you heard just about every wild and crazy story imaginable. “cloudstreet” is about this second group of people. ![]() In “cloudstreet”, two families divide up this big old house, the Pickles and the Lambs. But Oriel Lamb, the Lamb wife and mother and also an enterprising storekeeper, moves out to a big white tent in the front yard. “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. On three of the four lists, “cloudstreet” was Number One. I decided then and there that I must read Tim Winton and especially “cloudstreet” as soon as possible. ![]() “cloudstreet” is written in a language I will call Australian. ![]()
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