Helen Garner, Author . Holt $22 (175p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8888-5
Garner (Monkey Grip
) employs her signature realism in this stunted novel about the infuriating and eye-opening experience of caring for a terminally ill loved one. Helen prepares a room in her Melbourne home for Nicola, an old friend who travels...
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Helen Garner, Author Free Press $23.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-83506-8
In 1992, Australian journalist and novelist Garner read an account of a college master (a ""principal executive officer of a residential college"") being charged with indecent assault on two college women. For reasons not immediately clear even to...
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Helen Garner. Text (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-922079-20-6
In this emotionally overwrought and dramatic account, Australian author Garner (The Spare Room) recounts her time following the trial of Robert Farquharson, a single father accused of killing his three sons by driving off the road and into a dam on...
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Helen Garner. Text, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-925355-36-9
Garner, one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers (This House of Grief), gives her fans a captivating collection of personal essays and diary entries. In 33 short pieces, she covers a wide variety of topics, including the weariness of moving houses,
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Helen Garner, Author, Helen Garper, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-14-008462-7
In these generally chilling and depressing short stories, Garner, an Australian, depicts careless, thoughtless and sometimes cruel characters who are full of pain. In ""Little Helen's Sunday Afternoon,'' a mean and spiteful child shows his young...
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