True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
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Spanning forty years of work, True Stories is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia's greatest 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 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.
Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning forty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
Author: Helen Garner
Format: Paperback, 656 pages, 152mm x 233mm, 849 g
Published: 2018, Text Publishing, Australia
Genre: Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous
Description
Spanning forty years of work, True Stories is the collected essays, stories and diary entries of one of Australia's greatest 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 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.
Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning forty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction