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True Stories

Complete Short Non-Fiction
By Helen Garner
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True Stories by Helen Garner offers a captivating collection of essays that explore life, art, and cultural complexities through the keen eye of the author. Garner delves into real-life experiences and encounters, reflecting on the human condition with honesty and wit. This book intertwines personal reflection with broader societal observations, providing insightful commentary on the world around us.
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This collection may appeal to you if you enjoy thought-provoking essays that delve deeply into human experiences and emotions. With her keen eye for detail and compassion, the author explores a range of cultural and personal topics, offering insight into both ordinary and extraordinary aspects of life. Ideal for readers who appreciate reflective and honest storytelling.

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True Stories

This edition brings together the essays, stories and diary entries of True Stories, The Feel of Steel and Everywhere I Look as well as later work.

An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.

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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.

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Helen Garner's True Stories is celebrated for its incisive and honest prose, offering a compilation of essays, diary entries, and stories that explore themes like family, love, and human frailties. Garner's writing is praised for its clarity, charm, and deep empathy, inviting readers to delve into the nuances of everyday life with acute observation and emotional insight. Critics highlight her ability to transform mundane experiences into poetic reflections, affirming her status as a significant voice in contemporary literature.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925498875

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 October 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 800

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Helen Garner Non-Fiction Penguin Books

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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