Just Relations

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

Just Relations

First edition
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
Dewey Decimal	823 19
LC Class	PR9619.3.H285 J87 1982
Preceded by	A Place Among People
Followed by	Kisses 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:

• Viking Press 1983, USA^[6]
• Allen Lane 1983, UK^[7]
• Simon and Schuster 1989, USA^[8]
• Faber & Faber 1990, UK^[9]
• Picador 2000, Australia^[10]

See also

• 1982 in Australian literature