True Stories
Garner Helen
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition
Description: 636 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: 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. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australias great writers.
ISBN: 9781925498875
(220583)
