True Stories
Author: Garner, Helen
ISBN: 9781925498875
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 30 Oct 2017
Pages: 800
Format: Hardback
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show.
She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.
Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling.
ISBN: 9781925498875
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 30 Oct 2017
Pages: 800
Format: Hardback
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show.
She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.
Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling.
