![]() ![]() So, as I worked my way through the far longer Cloudstreet, I was surprised to find the same sense of connection with these characters. In short his works had helped me to realise that my weirdness just made me normal. I really enjoyed them and found that he was able to focus on the interesting peculiarities of ordinary people. I had never read Cloudstreet prior to checking it out for class but I had worked with Winton’s shorter fiction in several collections of short stories. ![]() Faced with Winton’s phonebook and a story that spanned twenty years I wasn’t convinced I was onto a winner here either. The novel facing extinction was The Life of Pi and I had liked it quite a bit but the students had never warmed to it. ![]() I am not really one for Australian fiction generally and I certainly don’t like straight up and down stories of the good old Aussie battler but I found myself reading Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet as the most likely choice to replace a novel leaving the English list at the end of 2013. However, I see this review as a chance to pull this text back from the precipice that is my classroom experience and into the warmth of the bedside lamp. I may, as is understandable, be slightly over it at the moment. I need to say up front that I write this review after marking a lot of essays written on this text. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, 1991 Penguin Book ISBN: 978 0 14 027398 4 ![]()
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