词条 | Just Let Me Be |
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| name = Just Let Me Be | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Jon Cleary | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = crime | publisher = Wener Laurie | release_date = 1950 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Just Let Me Be is a 1950 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was his third published full-length novel.[1][2] PlotJoe 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] AwardsThe novel won the 1950 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.[4] AdaptationsThe novel was adapted for British TV in 1957. RepublicationIt was later republished in 1990 under the title You, the Jury.[5] References1. ^{{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
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