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The Harp In The South Trilogy (2010)

by Ruth Park(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0143180150 (ISBN13: 9780143180159)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: These are three novels combined into the one book tracing the lives of Hugh Darcy and his wife Margaret from country town to the slums of Sydney in the period between the world wars.Great characters are the basis of the story as the Darcy family live out their lives in poverty, wasted opportunities, frustrated dreams, shame and sadness. I liked the second novel the best while all three stand alone. A great story of the poor Irish in Australia during the first part of the 20th century.
review 2: Beautifully written. The characters come to life by Ruth's writing. Hughie and Mumma Darcy reminds me a lot of Homer and Marge. It's a good book about everything, but nothing. It paints a clear picture of what life was like as a Catholic Irish Australian family living in... more the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, which was an inner city slum. The novel contains a lot of "light-hearted" racism in the book. Unsure whether it was just a norm of that time or perhaps the author is trying to convey an important, didactic message to the reader in regards to prejudice towards minorities. Hard to say! less

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