Just Relations

Just Relations
First edition
AuthorRodney Hall
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPenguin, Australia
Publication date
1982
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePaperback
Pages502
ISBN0-14-006097-9
OCLC9282964
823 19
LC ClassPR9619.3.H285 J87 1982
Preceded byA Place Among People 
Followed byKisses of the Enemy 

Just Relations is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Rodney Hall.[1]

The novel won the Miles Franklin Award,[2] the FAW ANA Literature Award, and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, in 1982.[3]

Abstract

"The back-of-beyond New South Wales hamlet of Whitey's Fall is the home of a secret, solitary boy seeking love, two young men who crave the same woman, and an earnest, bumbling, and provocative government man."[1]

Critical reception

Marion Halligan, writing in The Canberra Times noted that this novel was "the most exciting new book I have read in a long time." She then continued: "It is impossible to categorise such a book. It's farce, it's comedy, it's tragedy; it's grotesque and tender and dreadful. And full of wisdom; little essential drops of it well out of the narrative from time to time."[4]

Publishing history

After the novel's initial publication by Penguin in 1982,[5] it was then published as follows:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Just Relations". Austlit. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Rodney Hall wins award". The Canberra Times. Vol. 57, no. 17, 397. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 May 1983. p. 3. Retrieved 24 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Festival speakers win Fellowship". No. 21. Canberra Times. 6 April 1983. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  4. ^ "An invigorating winner". The Canberra Times. Vol. 56, no. 17, 073. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 26 June 1982. p. 14. Retrieved 24 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Just Relations (Penguin)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Just Relations (Viking)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Just Relations (Allen Lane)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Just Relations (Simon and Schuster)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  9. ^ "Just Relations (Simon and Schuster)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  10. ^ "Just Relations (Simon and Schuster)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 June 2023.


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