Found Tim Winton books on shelves, but not the one I wanted. (Note to latter-day self: stop using cliches!)Īnd on 29th June, before heading to the airport for my flight to England, I asked my father to drop me in town and later wrote, “Walked through Mall to bookshops. In Cloudstreet, nostalgia all too easily redeems Australias colonial past. Doubt I’ll ever be able to write as well as either author. Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton published in 1991. End of the book has a similar mystical feel to Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. On 28th June, my last night in Perth, I wrote, “Finished Cloudstreet. This marvelous postmodern novel of family life by bestselling Australian writer Winton (Minimum of. Mind racing with Cloudstreet, my short story, England, the future and past, etc. by Tim Winton RELEASE DATE: April 6, 1992. On 25th June, with family in Perth, WA, I wrote, “Didn’t sleep well overnight. From Tim Winton, Australias most decorated and beloved novelist and the author of Cloudstreet, comes The Shepherds Hut, the story of a young man on a. On 7th June, I went for an evening stroll along Bondi Beach and browsed in a bookshop where I found a copy of the book - though I merely commented, “Bought Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, a WA author.” My travel diary from back then also has several entries about Winton and Cloudstreet.
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