Captivity Captive

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Captivity Captive
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Author Rodney Hall
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
Publisher Farrar Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1988
Media typePrint
Pages214 pp.
ISBN 0374118892
Preceded byKisses of the Enemy 
Followed byThe Second Bridegroom 

Captivity Captive (1988) is a novel by Australian writer Rodney Hall. It was originally published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in US in 1988. [1]

Contents

This is Book 3 of The Yandilli Trilogy, but the first to be published. The other books in the trilogy are: The Second Bridegroom (1991) and The Grisly Wife (1993). [1]

Synopsis

In 1898 two sisters and brother are found dead in a paddock, badly beaten and then shot to death. Over 50 years later, with the case still unsolved, Patrick Malone attempts to make sense of the mystery.

Critical reception

Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Judith Lukin noted: "With this novel Hall proves himself to be an outstanding figure on the Australian literary scene — a writer of quite stunning versatility and truly shocking power...This is a vitally sensual novel, dark and smooth, a terrifying story slashed with loveliness. Hall the poet has found yet another voice as novelist. The book courts the reader with the what-might-have-been and the unimaginable, with a story back-lit as plausible tragedy by the senseless and loveless atrocity of the Great War which was to follow. The family's fate binds love with death and holds not only the murder victims but all the family captives of that violent love in an intertwining that makes the end seem unavoidably natural." [2]

Publication history

After its original publication in 1988 in US by publisher Farrar Straus and Giroux [3] the novel was later reprinted as follows:

The novel was also translated into French and Danish in 1988, and German in 1990. [1]

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References

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  2. ""Exquisite ghastliness, unavoidably natural"". The Canberra Times, 3 September 1988, p17. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
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  4. "Captivity Captive (McPhee Gribble 1988)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  5. "Captivity Captive (Faber 1988)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
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  7. "Austlit — Vance Palmer Prize 1989". Austlit. Retrieved 22 December 2023.