Cloudstreet
Australian novelist, born 1960.
Cloudstreet is a 1991 novel by Tim Winton.
In family saga
On 2 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Tim Winton
- First published
- 1991
- Length
- 448 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, Rural life, Religion and faith
Is Cloudstreet worth reading?
2 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it: 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts) and The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 novels that shaped our world (BBC Arts, 2019) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, 2022) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Cloudstreet
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2024), 448 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2024)
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9781035038930
How critics, prizes and readers rate Cloudstreet
Readers and critics rate it about equally: it earned 13% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 10% on critics' lists, against 0% on prize lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work