History
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2010
winner y
Cloudstreet
Melbourne
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McPhee Gribble
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1991
Z204365
1991
single work
novel
(taught in 16 units)
After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united and – until God seems to turn his back on their boy Fish – religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.
Chance, hardship and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives.
Works About this Award
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Someone Must Read the Stuff 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 6) Garry Dalrymple examines the 290 nominated books in the Australian Book Review Fan Poll. He extracts those within science fiction or fantasy genres and finds eleven sci-fi titles and seven fantasy novels. -
The Missing 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 6) -
A River-of-Life Saga 2010 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 4, 6) -
Announcing the Top Ten ABR Favourite Australian Novels 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 24-25)A list of the top ten selections in ABR's Fan Poll to choose the Favourite Australian Novel. The most popular choice, by a margin of three to one, was Tim Winton's Cloudstreet.
For a complete listing of all nominated titles, see: http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/competitions/abr-fan-poll
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Advances 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 318 2010; (p. 1) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on ABR's Fan Poll and a note about the discovery of two Donald Friend diaries in the USA.
