{"product_id":"9781925773194","title":"True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction","description":"Author: Garner, Helen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925773194\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Oct 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 656 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning forty years of work,\u003ci\u003e True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia's greatest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen 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 stories on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio and Akon Guode, the mother who drove her children into a lake, won her two Walkley Awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary book, spanning forty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48181133312158,"sku":"UBD-9781925773194","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925773194.jpg?v=1787398724","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925773194","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}