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词条 Just Let Me Be
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Awards

  3. Adaptations

  4. Republication

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Just Let Me Be is a 1950 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was his third published full-length novel.[1][2]

Plot

Joe Brennan, an ex-serviceman, returns home to Coogee after World War II. He gets a job as a milkman and intends to make enough money to marry his girlfriend Connie. He accidentally kills a man while defending local gangster Bill Pepper and is persuaded to hide the body.[3]

Awards

The novel won the 1950 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.[4]

Adaptations

The novel was adapted for British TV in 1957.

Republication

It was later republished in 1990 under the title You, the Jury.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131133176 |title=BOOK REVIEWS---. |newspaper=The News |location=Adelaide |date=14 July 1950 |accessdate=18 October 2015 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23027748 |title=Younger novelists merit more attention. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=18 November 1950 |accessdate=18 October 2015 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18197758 |title=Violence Breaks Out At Coogee. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=3 February 1951 |accessdate=6 March 2012 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=u7rawzFVLskC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22australian+literature+society%22+%2B%221950%22&source=bl&ots=5nrl-48SZy&sig=xybkYPYzVRPCVKDCatN_1PKAr-8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5yITbyLLLAhUj5qYKHeYmDbIQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=%22australian%20literature%20society%22%20%2B%221950%22&f=false The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature p129]
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120887688 |title=Boom under way in crime writing. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=25 March 1990 |accessdate=18 October 2015 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}

External links

  • Serialisation of novel in The Australian Women's Weekly 26 May 1954: 65 Supplement Accessed 6 March 2012
  • Just Let Me Be at AustLit (subscription required)
  • You, the Jury at AustLit (subscription required)
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4 : 1950 Australian novels|Novels set in New South Wales|Novels by Jon Cleary|ALS Gold Medal winning works

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