| 词条 | The Witch's Thorn |
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| name = The Witch's Thorn | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Ruth Park | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = Fiction | publisher = Angus and Robertson | release_date = 1951 | media_type = Print | pages = 220 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = Poor Man's Orange | followed_by = A Power of Roses }}The Witch's Thorn (1951) is a novel by Australian author Ruth Park.[1] Plot outlineThe novel is set in the fictional New Zealand North Island town of Te Kana. After the disappearance of her consumptive mother and the death of her beloved grandamother, Bethell Jury is adopted by her Aunt Amy whose husband is the local grocer and whose son is an unpleasant lout. Critical receptionThe initial press reaction to this novel was not good: The Advertiser (Adelaide) found "There is wonderful material in this for a colorful novel of New Zealand life, but Ruth Park resolutely sticks to the horror and the sordidness whose sensational exploitation marred her Sydney novels";[2] The Examiner (Launceston) was blunt in stating that " it is inspired by cruelty, disease, despair, blasphemy and death";[3] and The Sydney Morning Herald noted that The New York Times called it "unplotted and nervously episodic".[4] Possibly in a sort of response to these views, Kirkus Reviews noted: "There's an unblinking realization of the rough and tumble of bare subsistence, of the good in the bad and the worst in the best of us that gives this a raw insistence which may repel or attract."[5] See also
NotesDedication: For Charles Hutchinson: unforgotten.[1] References1. ^1 Austlit - The Witch's Thorn by Ruth Park {{DEFAULTSORT:Witch's Thorn, The}}2. ^"Latest Fiction" The Advertiser, 12 January 1952, p6 3. ^"The Low-Down on Down Under" The Examiner, 5 July 1952, p12 4. ^"Ruth Park Book Criticised" The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December 1952, p3 5. ^[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ruth-park-2/the-witchs-thorn/ "The Witch's Thorn by Ruth Park" Kirkus Reviews] 4 : Novels by Ruth Park|1951 Australian novels|Novels set in New Zealand|Novels about orphans |
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