Relations by Hall Rodney (86 results)

Condition: Very Good. Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense of belonging. Remembering is their religion; the mountain is their altar. They are the guardians of the land's unbroken promise. But time brings strangers with different dreams, a different sense of justice. And their coming is a violation, a breakfast for parasites. Just Relations is winner of the 1982 Miles Franklin Award.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, 502 Pages.- The residents of Whitney's Fall are aged between 80 and 114. In this remote Australian mining town they are a bastion against the empty promise of progress.Enchanting in its narrative, powerful and poetic in its language.- "When a work of art apears in a form of a book so astonishingly well writing , it bids to take one's breath away." Los Angeles Times.- ".quite wonderful." The New Yorker.…

Condition: Very Good. Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense of belonging. Remembering is their religion; the mountain is their altar. They are the guardians of the land's unbroken promise. But time brings strangers with different dreams, a different sense of justice. And their coming is a violation, a breakfast for parasites. Just Relations is winner of the 1982 Miles Franklin Award.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book/ closed tear on rear dust jacket panel otherwise very good+ dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Penguin Books May 1984 Binding: Trade Paperback paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. AS NEW. No wear to the covers. No spine creasing from opening. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1983. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Slight Wear to Top Edge Of Boards, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670411140. 502 pages. hardcover. keywords: Oceania Australia Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - JUST RELATIONS is set in the town of Whitey's Fall, a declining former gold town peopled by a set of aging eccentrics, whose only religion is 'Remembering.' The townspeople include - Felicia Brinsmead, a seventy-three-year old spinster who has never had her hair cut so that it hangs over her like a huge, dirty web and who believes that she is the mother of a twelve-year-old boy, Fido; The narcissistic Mr. Ping, who willfully destroys his fading beauty; And there is the spirit of Kel McAlon, who has killed himself. Into this community comes beautiful thirty-four-year-old Vivien Lang, with whom the teenager Billy Swan falls in love, to the scandal of some of the town. To it also comes Senator Frank Halloran to inform the community that a highway is being built through to bring the town to life. All but one of the forty-nine residents are outraged. inventory #4362 Slight Wear to Top Edge Of Boards, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Viking, 1983. First U.S. edition. Black cloth spine, red paper-covered boards, 502 pages. Fine/Very Good Dust jacket has small tear on bottom Miles Franklin Award Winner (Australia's highest literary honor). The Australian poet/novelist's first book to be published in the U.S.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

hardcover. [First Edition]. black cloth-tape w/ red-orange paper boards; gilt lettering on spine; 502 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $16.75 on front flap, author photo by Tim Brook on rear. quotes by Marion Halligan, Jim Davidson & John Bryson on back cover. jacket art by Bascove. fine copy in fine dust jacket w/ only tiny delamination spots to front at corner tip & middle bottom edge; Hall's 3rd novel, 1st in U.S.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First US printing. Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Very good in a very good dust jacket (slight bumping to corners, price-clipped dj.).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. FSG (New York), 1982. First edition. Hardbound. New in dust jacket, which has some slight wear to top spine. A tight unread copy. Novel. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. 502 pages. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Miles Franklin Award Winner (Australia's highest literary honor). Winner of the 1982 FAW Barbara Ramsden Award Book of the Year. Winner of the 1982 FAW ANA Literature Award.…