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y separately published work icon Captivity Captive single work   novel   historical fiction  
Is part of A Dream More Luminous Than Love : The Yandilli Trilogy Rodney Hall , 1994 selected work novel
  • Author:agent Rodney Hall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hall-rodney
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Captivity Captive
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'A worthy successor to the prize-winning Just Relations, Hall's second novel to appear in this country is shorter and tighter, with the same mythical, almost mystical quality of an Australian legend, here distilled to the rambling memories of apparently senile Patrick Murphy. Patrick is outraged by the deathbed confession, in 1956, of Barney Barnett, a contemporary who was once betrothed to Patrick's sister Ellen. Barney says that 58 years ago he committed the brutal murders of three of Patrick's siblings: Norah, 27, Ellen, 18, and Michael, 29. (Hall uses an actual, unsolved murder case of 1898 and the real victims' names; no culprit was ever found.) Barnett's confession, a final try for some kind of fame or glory, is exposed as a hoax; he makes a grave error of fact and the Sydney police inspector grunts in disgust. Patrick's inner monologue does not at first reveal what he knows about the murders, although it's plain he knows a lot. As he ranges through his memories, describing childhood events from 70 years before, we are caught up in an extraordinary family of 10 children who lived with their tall, silent parents on a farm called Paradise, far away in the Australian farmlands...'

Source: Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-11889-1

Notes

  • Book 3 of The Yandilli Trilogy

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Farrar Straus and Giroux ,
      1988 .
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      Extent: 214p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 0374118892
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: McPhee Gribble , 1988 .
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      Extent: 214p.
      Reprinted: 1989
      ISBN: 0869140485, 086914071 (pbk)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Faber ,
      1988 .
      image of person or book cover 495117759507982675.jpg
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      Extent: 214p.
      ISBN: 0571150934
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Faber ,
      1989 .
      image of person or book cover 698147346700177852.jpg
      Extent: 214p.
      ISBN: 0571150942 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Simon and Schuster ,
      1989 .
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      Extent: 214p.
      Edition info: 1st Fireside ed.
      ISBN: 0671674412 (pbk)
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Dream More Luminous Than Love : The Yandilli Trilogy The Yandilli Trilogy Rodney Hall , Sydney : Picador , 1994 Z475928 1994 selected work novel historical fiction Sydney : Picador , 1994 pg. 477-689
Alternative title: Secrets Barbares
Language: French

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Works about this Work

Rodney Hall's Captivity Captive and Narrating the Gothic : Beneath Modernity Jo Jones , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Falling Backwards : Australian Historical Fiction and The History Wars 2018; (p. 195-226)
'According to a website containing collected photos of 'ghost orbs' - paranormal energy somehow captured through the act of photographing - the site of the Gatton Murders is a powerful centre of ghost activity, Unsolved murders, a tantalisingly close but ungraspable truth. Reality is in perception - how we see things. An orb. An eye.' (Introduction)
Re-Viewing History : Bicentennial Fictions Jo Jones , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 447-483)
History and the Novel : Refusing to Be Silent Jo Jones , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 55 no. 2 2010; (p. 36-52)
Argues that Australian historical fiction is important in considering the progress of Aboriginal-white relations.
Framing History: Photography in Rodney Hall's 'Yandilli Trilogy' Sigrun Meinig , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 29-33)
Eating at Home : Captivity Captive Greg Ratcliffe , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s) : Challenging Narratives and Practices 2001; (p. 261-269)
Untitled David McCooey , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , February vol. 5 no. 2 1990; (p. 15)

— Review of Captivity Captive Rodney Hall , 1988 single work novel
Fabling, Foxing, Lying or Crossing the Seas : Captives All! Reba Gostand , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 8 no. 1 1989; (p. 63-65)

— Review of 200 Australian Women : A Redress Anthology 1988 anthology biography ; Steel Beach Margaret Barbalet , 1988 single work novel ; That Fierce Virgin Gerard Windsor , 1988 single work novel ; Fox Bruce Pascoe , 1988 single work novel ; Liars : Australian New Novelists Helen Daniel , 1988 selected work criticism prose extract ; Captivity Captive Rodney Hall , 1988 single work novel ; Reflections : Selected Works from Greek Australian Literature 1988 anthology poetry short story essay extract
Captivity Captive Struggles with Historical Nightmare Manly Johnson , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 2 no. 2 1988; (p. 128-129)

— Review of Captivity Captive Rodney Hall , 1988 single work novel
Death in the Garden Rupert Schieder , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Books in Canada , October vol. 17 no. 7 1988; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Captivity Captive Rodney Hall , 1988 single work novel
Exquisite Ghastliness, Unavoidably Natural Judith Lukin , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 September 1988; (p. B1)

— Review of Captivity Captive Rodney Hall , 1988 single work novel
Eating at Home : Captivity Captive Greg Ratcliffe , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Compr(om)ising Post/colonialism(s) : Challenging Narratives and Practices 2001; (p. 261-269)
Framing History: Photography in Rodney Hall's 'Yandilli Trilogy' Sigrun Meinig , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 29-33)
History and the Novel : Refusing to Be Silent Jo Jones , 2010 single work essay
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 55 no. 2 2010; (p. 36-52)
Argues that Australian historical fiction is important in considering the progress of Aboriginal-white relations.
Literatouring Europe Manfred Jurgensen , 1991 single work prose
— Appears in: Redoubt , August no. 12 1991; (p. 56-59)
Thomas Keneally's Nightmare of History Manly Johnson , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 3 no. 2 1989; (p. 101-104)
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