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Tim Winton in his ‘quintessentially Australian’ novel Cloudstreet challenges modern perceptions of spirituality with his rhythmical tale of two families, the Pickles and the Lambs
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'Discuss the presentation of the spiritual in Cloudstreet' 'you only have to scratch a little to apprehend a universal spiritual yearning in people, Australian bury it with embarrassment or irony but its there.' Tim Winton Spirituality in today's society is a topic that is mostly spurned, or taken with heavy criticism, and is treated thus such despite the yearning by many for something more, in our money driven materialistic world. Tim Winton in his 'quintessentially Australian' novel Cloudstreet challenges modern perceptions of spirituality with his rhythmical tale of two families, the Pickles and the Lambs coming together in an old house in WA during the fifties and sixties. Told through the voice of Fish Lamb in the four minutes it takes him to die, this epic tale spanning twenty years encompasses the different aspects of spirituality that touched the lives of these families. What Tim Winton ultimately achieves is a depiction...
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