Ruth Park's Harp in the South Novels : Missus + Harp in the South + Poor Man's Orange
by Ruth Park
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- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140104569
- ISBN 13
- 9780140104561
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About This Item
Penguin, Scoresby, VIC, Australia, 1986. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 684 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, Scoresby, VIC, Australia, 1986. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Missus -Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations,the bush and the country towns. We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship in the dusty outback, filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry. Ruth Park's Australian classics take you from the barren landscapes of the outback to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart. The Harp In The SOuth -Covering a span of over thirty years in the life of the Darcy family, these three iconic novels from Ruth Park take us from first love to hardship via outback Australia and the streets of Surry Hills. In "Missus", we read about the adolescence and courtship of Hughie Darcy and the innocent Margaret in the dirt and dust of rural Australia. We next meet the pair in "The Harp in the South", where they run a flea-bitten boarding house in Surry Hills with their two daughters, Roie and Dolour. Making ends meet is hard in the slums of Sydney, and love is not kind to Roie as she takes her first steps into adulthood. Lastly we watch Dolour grow up all too fast in "Poor Man's Orange", as Hughie and Margaret struggle to keep their relationship alive after so many years together. At times confronting, often affectionate, this is a remarkable portrait of an Australian working-class family of the time. Poor Man's Orange - First published in 1949 as the sequel to the award-winning "The Harp in the South", this novel continues the story of the Darcy family of Sydney. The author also wrote "Swords and Crowns and Rings", which won the Miles Franklin Award. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australian; ISBN: 0140104569. ISBN/EAN: 9780140104561. Inventory No: 24040151.. 9780140104561
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24040151
- Title
- Ruth Park's Harp in the South Novels : Missus + Harp in the South + Poor Man's Orange
- Author
- Ruth Park
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140104569
- ISBN 13
- 9780140104561
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Scoresby, VIC, Australia
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Ruth Park's Harp in the South Novels : Missus + Harp in the South + Poor Man's Orange
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian; Fiction;
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