Just Relations
by Rodney Hall
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Set in Whitey's Fall, a remote settlement harbouring a long-defunct gold mine and a mythic mountain of gold, Rodney Hall's third novel chronicles the lives of the town's ancient and inbred villagers. They are aghast when the government proposes to turn their town into a tourist attraction and bring it into the modern world.Tags
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The story of the residents of Whitey's Fall: mostly old, set in their ways and all linked in different relationships. There were a few good parts, but on the whole this book dragged on and was not engaging enough.
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Rodney Hall was born in England on November 18, 1935. After World War II, he migrated to Australia with his family. At the age of 16, he left school in Brisbane, but eventually graduated from the University of Queensland in 1971. He has written collections of poetry, biographies, novels, and scripts for both television and radio. His works include show more Penniless till Doomsday, Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memories of the War, and The Day We Had Hitler Home. He has won numerous awards including the Grace Leven Poetry Prize for A Soapbox Omnibus, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for Captivity Captive, the Miles Franklin Award for Just Relations and for The Grisly Wife, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Second Bridegroom and Love without Hope. In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- To the future: my darling daughters, Imogen, Delia and Cressida
- First words
- If it's the day of the letters we're talking about, Miss Felicia Brinsmead was in top form.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But we never found one.
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