Postcards From Surfers: Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Pages - yellowed; light foxing on book block.
A celebrated collection of short fiction from one of Australia's most distinctive literary voices, Postcards from Surfers presents ten sharply observed stories that illuminate the quiet tensions and emotional undercurrents of everyday life. Garner chronicles the inner worlds of ordinary people — women navigating love, loss, family, and solitude — with a prose style that is spare, precise, and deeply humane. Each story uncovers the fragility beneath domestic surfaces, rendering small moments of connection and disconnection with extraordinary emotional clarity. The tone throughout is intimate and unsentimental, balancing tenderness with an unflinching honesty that has become Garner's hallmark. Widely regarded as a landmark in Australian short fiction, this collection illustrates why Garner remains one of the most important writers of her generation.
Author: Helen Garner
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Pages - yellowed; light foxing on book block.
A celebrated collection of short fiction from one of Australia's most distinctive literary voices, Postcards from Surfers presents ten sharply observed stories that illuminate the quiet tensions and emotional undercurrents of everyday life. Garner chronicles the inner worlds of ordinary people — women navigating love, loss, family, and solitude — with a prose style that is spare, precise, and deeply humane. Each story uncovers the fragility beneath domestic surfaces, rendering small moments of connection and disconnection with extraordinary emotional clarity. The tone throughout is intimate and unsentimental, balancing tenderness with an unflinching honesty that has become Garner's hallmark. Widely regarded as a landmark in Australian short fiction, this collection illustrates why Garner remains one of the most important writers of her generation.