True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction - Couverture rigide

Garner, Helen

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ISBN 10 : 1925498875 ISBN 13 : 9781925498875

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Her prose is wiry, stark, precise, but to find her equal for the tone of generous humanity one has to call up writers like Isaac Babel and Anton Chekhov.' Wall Street Journal

"Memoirist, fiction writer, faction writer, journalist? Australian critics and booksellers have stopped trying to pigeonhole Melburnian writer Helen Garner and now just give her prizes... These stories and essays are the work of a natural storyteller, of an unsparing yet sympathetic eye... It's all wonderful stuff: unstinting honesty, clarity and charm. Dive in." --North & South

'This collection of columns, essays and feature writing from the early 1970s to the present is a real treat, offering immersive journalism, humour, whimsy and analysis.' -- Overland

"This is the power of Garner's writing. 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." --Australian

"Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest living writers and her collection of essays, diary entries and stories written over almost 50 years is just the thing for the lover of fine writing. A compilation of three non-fiction collections, True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction covers everything from family, love and marriage, sex and motherhood to travel, writing and criminal trials. Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word." -- Sydney Morning Herald

"True Stories by Helen Garner - I mean, really. Helen. Helen Garner. Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of glitter cannons exploding in my heart."Marieke Hardy, Melbourne Writers Festival Staff Summer Reading List
"Those who consider Helen Garner the Australian Joan Didion want to compliment Garner, but maybe they are truly complimenting Didion."El Cultural, Spain
"The chameleon-like non-fiction of the Australian Helen Garner, queen of the effervescent true crime, proves that reality is, at times, pure literature." Babelia, Spain
This last story [Killing Daniel], shocked me so much that, in the absence of a punching ball, I jumped out of bed, put my shoes on and went for a run until my rage subsided. And I know - or thought I knew - how to control my anger." Esquire Magazine, Spain
"A first-class author, who shines with her open and sharp view... Her writing makes these real stories come alive." --La Razon, Spain (9/10 rating)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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 Australia's great writers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925498875
• ISBN 13: 9781925498875
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 800
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible