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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Helen Garner. Pantheon, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-70214-7
Garner (Everywhere I Look) reflects on masculinity and the passage of time in this tender if somewhat opaque chronicle of the season she spent watching her grandson play Australian football. Feeling adrift in her writing, Garner asked her 15-year-old
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