The Harp In The South

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Angus And Robertson
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1990
Edition: Reprint

Description: 229 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Set In Surry Hills Of The 1940s, A Novel Of Sydneys Slum Life.

Publishers Description: Since it was first published in 1948, this compassionate novel has become a favourite with generations of Australian readers.The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum. There grow the bitter-sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels and the razor gangs, the tenements and the sly-grog shops.Ruth Park is a classic storyteller. In this novel she brings to life a community where, despite the odds, life is always exubeant and full of promise.(from this Penguin editions bookcover blurb)

ISBN: 0207142823