True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
Author(s): Helen Garner
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 stories on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio and Akon Guode, the mother who drove her children into a lake, won her two Walkley Awards.Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. True Storiesis an extraordinary book, spanning forty years of work, by one of Australia?s great writers.
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- : Text Publishing Company
- : Text Publishing Company
- : 0.796
- : 01 September 2018
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- : Helen Garner
- : Paperback
- : 1811
- : English
- : 824.914
- : 656
- : DN