Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet, a novel written by Tim Winton published in 1991 is a story of two rural families, who through two separate bad incidents migrate to the city and find themselves sharing, equally, a large house known as ‘Cloudstreet’ – or at least the shop is called that. Through 20 years of life, the reader is able to paint a unique picture of the many characters that are presented through the novel. Among these, Samson Lester, more commonly known …

…starts and ends with him as the main figure, as said previously, he is the link between the complex and the real plane of imagination, he is the cause of one of the families ‘catastrophes’ and he is seen as a very subversive narrator (although I did not pick this up myself). Yet one cannot pass him on as the protagonist as other characters are in a way equally treated with different aspects to them.