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Just Relations

{{Short description|Novel by Australian author Rodney Hall}}

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{{infobox book |

| name = Just Relations

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| image = Just Relations.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Rodney Hall

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = Novel

| publisher = Penguin, Australia

| release_date = 1982

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| media_type = Paperback

| pages = 502

| isbn = 0-14-006097-9

| dewey = 823 19

| congress = PR9619.3.H285 J87 1982

| oclc = 9282964

| preceded_by = A Place Among People

| followed_by = Kisses of the Enemy

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Just Relations is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Rodney Hall.{{cite web|title= Just Relations |publisher= Austlit|url= https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C259333|accessdate= 24 June 2023}}

The novel won the Miles Franklin Award,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1131844531 |title=Rodney Hall wins award |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=57 |issue=17,397 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=18 May 1983 |accessdate=24 June 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} the FAW ANA Literature Award, and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, in 1982.{{cite news|title=Festival speakers win Fellowship|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116377370|access-date=14 February 2018|issue=21|publisher=Canberra Times|date=6 April 1983}}

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."

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."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126905293 |title=An invigorating winner |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=56 |issue=17,073 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=26 June 1982 |accessdate=24 June 2023 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Publishing history

After the novel's initial publication by Penguin in 1982,{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Penguin) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1441720|accessdate= 23 June 2023}} it was then published as follows:

  • Viking Press 1983, USA{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Viking) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3574696|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}
  • Allen Lane 1983, UK{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Allen Lane) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/791659|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}
  • Simon and Schuster 1989, USA{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Simon and Schuster) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4702510|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}
  • Faber & Faber 1990, UK{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Simon and Schuster) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4727578|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}
  • Picador 2000, Australia{{cite web|title= Just Relations (Simon and Schuster) |publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2038415|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}

See also

References

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  • [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/hallr/justrelations.html Middlemiss.org]

{{Miles Franklin Award}}

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Category:1982 Australian novels

Category:Miles Franklin Award–winning works

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