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Issue Details: First known date: 1965... 1965 No End to the Way
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Banned in Australia

Censorship Agencies: Customs
Decision: 2 Dec 1964
NAA Source: C4130/1; Box J. C4371/1; Box 4 Folder 46.
Censorship notes: Customs most likely banned the proof copy of the Barrie Rockliff edition, before it was formally published in 1965. The 1965 Barrie Rockliff edition was first sent to the Literature Censorship Board on appeal and the board released it on 27.01.1966.

Notes

  • Dedication: for John and 'Joop' wherever either of you may be.
  • Epigraph: Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; / Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; / Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. -- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy.
  • Publisher's note: This novel, it must be said at the outset, is an unusually frank story of a homosexual 'marriage' - frank, particularly, in the honesty of the picture it paints both of the two central characters and the homosexual society in which they move. For while the story dramatically illustrates the legal and social pressures which militate against the permanency of a homosexual relationship, Neville Jackson makes no attempt to disguise that bitchiness and spite are at least as common among his characters as among homosexuals.

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The Novel at Arms : Rereading Australian Mid-century Realism Nicole Moore , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
The Writing and Publishing of Australia's First Gay Novel Jeremy Fisher , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 29 no. 4 2014; (p. 62-72) Jeremy Fisher examines 'the iconic' Australian novel, No End to the Way. He states that 'the book had a powerful impact on a generation of young Australian men coming to terms with their homosexuality...'
Places Without a Place : New Possibilities for 'Airport Fiction' Tony Davis , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; 'International flight provides a strange paradox: the modern jet passenger is plied with food and alcohol as if special, yet checked, monitored and identified as if a criminal. A long haul trip involves passing over time zones and countries (and borders and sovereignty), out of sync with day and night, and for much of the time without agency (literally belted into place, denied the usual electronic props of telephone and Internet). It is a place, or perhaps a non-place as defined by Marc Augé, ruled by the tension of being effectively guilty until you can demonstrate yourself innocent. Michel Foucault cited the boat or ship - 'a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea' - as the 'heterotopia par excellence.' This paper argues that the modern jetliner is an even more intense heterotopia, further disorienting with speed and the blurring of borders and time zones (also creating what Foucault calls a heterochrony, or slice of time that is often linked to a heterotopy). This paper further argues the metastable space entered at an airport and beyond (Fuller and Harley 5) provides untapped possibilities in fiction - and supports this argument with extracts from an extended short story/ novella by Tony Davis set entirely within a trip from Sydney to Zurich.' (Publication abstract)
When You is Me : Sustained Second-Person Narrative Voice in the Works of G. M. Glaskin and Peter Kocan Jeremy Fisher , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing , May no. 1 2010; (p. 37-77) This paper explores the use of sustained second-person narrative in G. M. Glaskin's No End to the Way and Peter Kocan's The Treatment.
A Personal Manifesto : Why I Write Homonarratives Jeremy Fisher , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Poofter's Dog 2002; (p. 1-89) This critical work, submitted as part of the requirements for the Doctorate of Creative Arts, University of Technology, Sydney, includes discussion of publishing and the book trade (how decisions to publish are made; history of publishing in Australia), censorship, and explores some issues in narrative theory. A significant section is devoted to G. M. Glaskin and his work No End to the Way, and a concluding section examines the works of Joseph Hansen, the American writer of detective novels.
A Personal Manifesto : Why I Write Homonarratives Jeremy Fisher , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Poofter's Dog 2002; (p. 1-89) This critical work, submitted as part of the requirements for the Doctorate of Creative Arts, University of Technology, Sydney, includes discussion of publishing and the book trade (how decisions to publish are made; history of publishing in Australia), censorship, and explores some issues in narrative theory. A significant section is devoted to G. M. Glaskin and his work No End to the Way, and a concluding section examines the works of Joseph Hansen, the American writer of detective novels.
When You is Me : Sustained Second-Person Narrative Voice in the Works of G. M. Glaskin and Peter Kocan Jeremy Fisher , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing , May no. 1 2010; (p. 37-77) This paper explores the use of sustained second-person narrative in G. M. Glaskin's No End to the Way and Peter Kocan's The Treatment.
By Permission of G. M. Glaskin Jeremy Fisher , 2002 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 169 2002; (p. 55-58)
Places Without a Place : New Possibilities for 'Airport Fiction' Tony Davis , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Scholar , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; 'International flight provides a strange paradox: the modern jet passenger is plied with food and alcohol as if special, yet checked, monitored and identified as if a criminal. A long haul trip involves passing over time zones and countries (and borders and sovereignty), out of sync with day and night, and for much of the time without agency (literally belted into place, denied the usual electronic props of telephone and Internet). It is a place, or perhaps a non-place as defined by Marc Augé, ruled by the tension of being effectively guilty until you can demonstrate yourself innocent. Michel Foucault cited the boat or ship - 'a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea' - as the 'heterotopia par excellence.' This paper argues that the modern jetliner is an even more intense heterotopia, further disorienting with speed and the blurring of borders and time zones (also creating what Foucault calls a heterochrony, or slice of time that is often linked to a heterotopy). This paper further argues the metastable space entered at an airport and beyond (Fuller and Harley 5) provides untapped possibilities in fiction - and supports this argument with extracts from an extended short story/ novella by Tony Davis set entirely within a trip from Sydney to Zurich.' (Publication abstract)
The Writing and Publishing of Australia's First Gay Novel Jeremy Fisher , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , November vol. 29 no. 4 2014; (p. 62-72) Jeremy Fisher examines 'the iconic' Australian novel, No End to the Way. He states that 'the book had a powerful impact on a generation of young Australian men coming to terms with their homosexuality...'
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