$18.71
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2019
Summary
The first volume of autobiography by celebrated writer Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, the Age Book of the Year and the Colin Roderick Award.
This first volume of Ruth Park’s autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression. She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journali…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925773385 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925773388 |
| Author: | Ruth Park |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 131mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘A splendid achievement.’
‘A splendid achievement.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Her words sparkle on every page, and her compassion and humour shine throughout the entire book.’ * Age *
‘One of the best pieces of autobiographical writing in many years…a joy to read.’ * Courier Mail *
‘An illuminating and entrancing vision of how one twig was bent to incline towards a lifetime of writing.’ * Good Weekend *
Ruth Park
Born in New Zealand in 1917, Ruth Park spent most of her adult life in Australia. She was widely read and well-loved for her books, which were as equally successful for adults as for children. She is best known for the novels The Harp in the South, Poor Man’s Orange, and Swords and Crowns and Rings, for which she won the 1977 Miles Franklin Award.
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