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One Day I'll Remember This

Diaries 1987-1995
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One Day I'll Remember This by Helen Garner offers a captivating glimpse into the author's life, exploring her personal experiences and reflections from her diaries between 1987 and 1995. With a touching blend of vulnerability and insight, Garner navigates her writing career, personal relationships, and the challenges of everyday life, painting a vivid portrait of her journey through these pivotal years.
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You might enjoy this reflective memoir if you're drawn to candid and insightful accounts of personal growth and life's complexities. Helen Garner's writing often resonates with those who appreciate nuanced storytelling and an exploration of human emotions and relationships.

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In this second volume of diaries from one of Australia's greatest writers, we see Garner in love; asking herself questions about relationships, individuality, morality and contentment. This volume illuminates the inner life of a writer with all its turmoil and joy.

Why should it be any different from any other love affair? Why shouldn't it run through its phases, wither, and die? I'd better work if I want to survive this, and if I want to play my full and proper part in it. Who wants a lovesick, lazy drip, obsessed with her own emotions and full of resentment against fate?

I can only live the thing to its fullest extent. This is what life is. It's not for saying no.

Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work.

With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with anotherβ€”how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising. And through it all, we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work and the enduring value of friendship.

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Helen Garner’s One Day I'll Remember This has been praised for its raw honesty, sharp observations, and exceptional literary craft. Critics commend her detailed reflections and her ability to transform daily life into compelling narratives. This memoir offers profound insights into the artistic process and Garner's personal journey, making it a compelling read for fans and newcomers alike.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922458933

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Helen 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 books include Monkey Grip, The Spare Room, This House of Grief and Everywhere I Look.

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