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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

    • bananafungus@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      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.