True stories : the collected short non-fiction /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Melbourne, Victoria :
Text Publishing,
[2017]
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| Summary: | 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 nonfiction is always passionate and compelling. |
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| Physical Description: | 636 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781925498875 1925498875 |