PublishedText Publishing, October 2017 |
ISBN9781925498875 |
FormatHardcover, 800 pages |
Dimensions24.2cm × 16.2cm |
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.
Marijke is the Customer Service Supervisor at Boffins and has been a Boffin for over five years, and a bird fanatic for even longer. She reads anything interesting.
These new collections of Helen Garner’s work make a beautiful set with their contrasting hardcovers. Any lover of Australian writing should own her work – it’s beautiful, at times heartbreaking and at times hilarious, and always worth the read.
