Just Relations

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

Just Relations
First edition
AuthorRodney Hall
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherPenguin, Australia
Publication date
1982
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 

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. "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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