D'Arcy Niland (1917–1967)
Auteur de The Shiralee
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Crédit image: public domain
Œuvres de D'Arcy Niland
The apprentices 3 exemplaires
De molensteen 1 exemplaire
Ruf mich wenn das Kreuz sich wendet 1 exemplaire
THE SHIRALEE 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Niland, D'arcy Francis
- Date de naissance
- 1917-10-20
- Date de décès
- 1967-03-29
- Lieu de sépulture
- Northern Suburbs cemetery, now Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium , Sydney, Australia
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
- Cause du décès
- Heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia
Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Études
- Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart school, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia
- Professions
- novelist
short-story writer - Relations
- Park, Ruth (wife)
Niland, Kilmeny (daughter)
Champion, Rafe (son-in-law)
Niland, Deborah (daughter)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 302
- Popularité
- #77,842
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 37
- Langues
- 4
And he also shows that his central character, against all the odds, had agency in his life and made a success of it. And that's why we see this character as one of a couple dressed in smart middle-class clothing, with a derelict old white man behind them on a park bench.
The 1959 Angus & Robertson cover is entirely different. I don't know who did the cover art but it clearly signals the 'noir' character of its contents. The 'big smoke' is Sydney in the 20s and 30s, and this Sydney is '.. is a character. It talks. It works on its own. It plays fair and it plays foul.' Niland's Sydney is peopled by characters living in poverty, and they are not blessed by affectionate communities or loving families as in the fiction of his wife Ruth Park, the author of novels also set in Sydney: The Harp in the South (1948); Poor Man's Orange (1949) and their prequel Missus (1985). To quote my review of The Harp in the South:
Niland (1917-1967) was the son of an Irish shearer. He began his writing career as a copy boy at the Sydney Sun, working at the Redfern railway sheds to augment his earnings. But he then chose to travel, work and live amongst the people he wanted to write about. In Australia and the Pacific, he worked as an opal-miner, a circus hand, a stevedore, and a woolshed rouseabout and these experiences amongst ordinary working people and the underclass informed his fiction and gave it powerful authenticity. Characters in The Big Smoke — a steeplejack, a street sweeper, a night watchman, a paperboy, a seamstress and a waitress come from the world of poorly paid dead-end jobs doing manual labour. (Actually, I'm not sure that Veronica's aunt and Gemma's father pay anything at all to the relatives who work for them.) Small business, such as it is, consists of Sleepy Gus's burger café, Spitz's rag-and-bone trade, Aunt Bridie's dressmaking, and Chiddy Hay's work as a boxing promoter. There's also a priest, a prostitute and a couple of housewives.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/03/16/the-big-smoke-1959-by-darcy-niland/… (plus d'informations)