First edition
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| Author | Rodney Hall |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Penguin, Australia |
Publication date | 1982 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 502 |
| ISBN | 0-14-006097-9 |
| OCLC | 9282964 |
| 823 19 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.H285 J87 1982 |
| Preceded by | A Place Among People |
| Followed by | Kisses 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]
"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]
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]
After the novel's initial publication by Penguin in 1982,[5] it was then published as follows:
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