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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Garner , Michael SalaPublisher: Text Publishing Imprint: The Text Publishing Company ISBN: 9781925603729ISBN 10: 1925603725 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 02 July 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'Helen Garner's collections of fiction and non-fiction corroborate her reputation as a great stylist and a great witness.' -- Peter Craven * Australian * 'Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.' -- James Wood * New Yorker * 'She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.' * Weekend Australian * `Helen Garner's collections of fiction and non-fiction corroborate her reputation as a great stylist and a great witness.' -- Peter Craven * Australian * `She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.' * Weekend Australian * `Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.' -- James Wood * New Yorker * Author InformationHelen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her novels include The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. She lives in Melbourne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |