Just Relations (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Just Relations is a sweeping work of Australian literary fiction that chronicles the final days of Whitey's Fall, a dying gold-rush town clinging to the edge of existence in the mountains of New South Wales. Rodney Hall constructs a richly layered narrative populated by eccentric, deeply human characters — among them the ancient matriarch Vivien McAloon and a mysterious stranger whose arrival unsettles the community's fragile equilibrium. Written in luminous, poetic prose, the novel presents isolation, memory, and the passage of time as forces that both bind and erode the bonds between people and place. Hall illustrates how a community's collective identity can be simultaneously preserved and destroyed by the very myths it tells about itself. Haunting and elegiac in tone, this landmark of Australian literature stands as a profound meditation on belonging, history, and the inevitable dissolution of the old world.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Paperback
Published: 1982, Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Just Relations is a sweeping work of Australian literary fiction that chronicles the final days of Whitey's Fall, a dying gold-rush town clinging to the edge of existence in the mountains of New South Wales. Rodney Hall constructs a richly layered narrative populated by eccentric, deeply human characters — among them the ancient matriarch Vivien McAloon and a mysterious stranger whose arrival unsettles the community's fragile equilibrium. Written in luminous, poetic prose, the novel presents isolation, memory, and the passage of time as forces that both bind and erode the bonds between people and place. Hall illustrates how a community's collective identity can be simultaneously preserved and destroyed by the very myths it tells about itself. Haunting and elegiac in tone, this landmark of Australian literature stands as a profound meditation on belonging, history, and the inevitable dissolution of the old world.