| Description |
217 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Roses were rarely seen at the old Jerusalem hotel. Life is hard, and for some of the tenants a luxury might be warm feet, cat's meat stew or a five-bob coat from a jumble sale. In A Power of Roses, Ruth Park draws vivid portraits of Miriam, the tough adolescent heroine; her Uncle Puss, a canny old Irishman; and a colourful assortment of inhabitants who live in the hotel's damp, rat-infested rooms in Sydney's slums |
| Notes |
Author born and educated in New Zealand |
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Novel |
| Subject |
Hotels -- Fiction.
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Slums -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111545
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
53037030 |
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