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'Garner is a natural storyteller.' James Wood, New Yorker

This handsome edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia's most loved authors.
These storiesthat delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of lifeare all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner's mastery of the form.

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious WindhamCampbell Literature Prize for non-fiction. Garner won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction for Postcards from Surfers, and the Victorian and Queensland Premiers' Awards, as well as the Barbara Jefferis Award, for her novel The Spare Room. Everywhere I Look won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non Fiction.

'Garner's stories share characteristics of the postcard: they flash before us carefully recorded images that remind us of harsher realities not pictured. And like postcards they are economically written, a bit of conversation is transcribed, a memory recalled, an event noted, scenes pass as if viewed from a trainmomentarily, distinct and tantalising in their beauty.' New York Times

'A perfect introduction for first-timers who have not yet experienced the pleasures of Garner's writing.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Stories and True Stories are handsome companion volumes deservedly celebrating Helen Garner, our greatest contemporary practitioner of observation, self-interrogation and compassion. Everything she writes, in her candid, graceful prose, rings true, enlightens, stays.' Joan London, Sydney Morning Herald's Year in Reading

'Published in beautiful editions to celebrate life given shape in words.' Drusilla Modjeska, Sydney Morning Herald's Year in Reading

'Both of these books are concerned with moments of heartbreak and of hope, with loneliness and love, and with great cruelties, and the things that drive people to them. They are animated by a desire to understand what seems unfathomable, and to pay attention to the small pleasures of the everyday. Garner's precise descriptions, her interest in minute shifts of emotion, and the ways in which we reveal ourselves to others are always at work in these books, and make them a real joy to read.' Age

'As I leaf through the volumes, having just re-read both of them, I am still brought up short by another revelatory insight of the everydayI could go on and on, but I am out of words. Many happy returns Helen Garner!' Adelaide Advertiser

'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

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Generi Romanzi e Letterature » Racconti e antologie letterarie » Romanzi contemporanei

Editore The Text Publishing Company

Formato Ebook con Adobe DRM

Pubblicato 30/10/2017

Lingua Inglese

EAN-13 9781925626179

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