- Rural families in fiction, Allegories, Working class families, City and town life in fiction
Two families marked by tragedy are thrown together in a rambling house with a past. The Lambs and the Pickles struggle with chance and bad luck in the crosscurrents of the world.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Tim Winton
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 426
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Bolinda Publishing
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143032489
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About Tim Winton · 1960
Tim Winton is an Australian novelist and actively involved in the environmental movement.
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