Poor Man's Orange
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Top corner of FEP torn away, otherwise pages intact, structural and clean. One tear at back of binding - otherwise structural and bright.
A vivid work of Australian literary fiction, Poor Man's Orange chronicles the turbulent coming-of-age of Roie Darcy, a young woman navigating love, hardship, and heartbreak in the gritty, working-class slums of Surry Hills, Sydney, in the years following World War II. The sequel to The Harp in the South, Ruth Park's novel continues the saga of the Darcy family with unflinching honesty, illustrating the crushing weight of poverty, the fragility of happiness, and the fierce resilience of ordinary people. Park writes with a rare combination of lyrical tenderness and unsentimental realism, capturing the squalor and warmth of a tight-knit community where joy and tragedy exist side by side. Roie's story — marked by a devastating loss and a tentative search for renewal — stands as one of the most emotionally powerful narratives in twentieth-century Australian literature, cementing Park's reputation as a masterful chronicler of working-class life.
Author: Ruth Park
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Angus & Robertson (Australian Classics)
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Top corner of FEP torn away, otherwise pages intact, structural and clean. One tear at back of binding - otherwise structural and bright.
A vivid work of Australian literary fiction, Poor Man's Orange chronicles the turbulent coming-of-age of Roie Darcy, a young woman navigating love, hardship, and heartbreak in the gritty, working-class slums of Surry Hills, Sydney, in the years following World War II. The sequel to The Harp in the South, Ruth Park's novel continues the saga of the Darcy family with unflinching honesty, illustrating the crushing weight of poverty, the fragility of happiness, and the fierce resilience of ordinary people. Park writes with a rare combination of lyrical tenderness and unsentimental realism, capturing the squalor and warmth of a tight-knit community where joy and tragedy exist side by side. Roie's story — marked by a devastating loss and a tentative search for renewal — stands as one of the most emotionally powerful narratives in twentieth-century Australian literature, cementing Park's reputation as a masterful chronicler of working-class life.