![]() ![]() ![]() She’s more than happy to forget he exists. She is definitely not still thinking about Roscoe. Simone let go of the past a long time ago. She’d also like some answers from her former best friend about why he ghosted her, but if she never gets those answers, that’s a-okay. Ten years after Roscoe Winston dropped out of her life, all Simone Payton wants is to exploit him. Unfortunately, after one chance encounter, Simone keeps popping up everywhere he happens to be. Roscoe Winston remembers everything-every look, every word, every single unrequited second-and the last thing he needs is another memory of Simone. He’d also like to forget her entirely, but that’s never going to happen. ![]() From the NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, & USA TODAY bestselling series Hunches, horse races, and heartbreak Ten years after Simone Payton broke his heart, all Roscoe Winston wants is a doughnut. ![]()
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![]() In general they interact peacefully, but when provoked, ethnic slurs fly. In their Sydney neighborhood, they interact with a variety of individuals with other backgrounds and faiths: Chinese, Italian, Jewish, and descendants of Indigenous Australians. ![]() The major figures cherish their Irish traditions and lifestyles, including adherence to a human but positive Roman Catholic faith. ![]() Some make cameo appearances while others are the focus of subplots.įor a book written 70 years ago, Harp is unusual in its full and sensitive depiction of ethnic diversity. It contains a big cast of characters, each unique and finely drawn. While following one family through several generations, Park brings in the stories of their friends and neighbors. Its themes include life and death, coming of age and aging, love and loss and much more. ![]() Harp in the South is a big book, not only in size, but in conception and scope. The first volume takes place in rural New South Wales and the next two follow a couple who married there and moved to the working-class slums of Sydney, and the lives of their children. Ruth Park is an excellent, old-fashion storyteller who wrote an Australian classic in the late 1940s. First published in 1948.Ī deservedly popular Australian trilogy about working-class Australian life in the mid-twentieth century. Penguin Books Australia (1987), Paperback, 684 pages. ![]() Including her Missus, Harp in the South AND Poor Man’s Orange. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book will be of great interest to anyone who is interested in: psychology, particularly of fundamentalism and blind faith, why some psychological conditions cause people to behave as they do, and the psychology of groups the history of change through social upheaval and mass movements how and why secular and religious extremist/fanatical groups come into being and why there has been and continues to be so much injustice, violence and depravity on such large scales in "civilization". The book is well referenced, and uses quotes from secular and religious writings (the Bible, too) associated with mass movements past and (the author's) present. The author uses examples of movements of all types from the past, as well as movements that were current when the book was written and discusses in great detail many techniques used to form and hold them together, the many motives that draw people to them, and the similarities between movements that appear on the surface to be completely different in nature (e.g., secular vs. This book presents ideas about how mass movements work and the psychology of people that awaken/join mass movements. ![]() |