Everywhere I Look - Softcover

Garner, Helen

 
9781925498080: Everywhere I Look

Synopsis

A collection of essays, diary entries and musings from Garner's life, full of her trademark wit, intelligence and intuition. Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning 15 years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice.

Everywhere I Look includes Garner's famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.

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About the Author

Helen Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip (Penguin, 1977), won the National Book Council Award and was adapted for film in 1981. Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays and feature journalism. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her most recent novel, The Spare Room (Canongate, 2008) won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and has been translated into many languages. She lives in Melbourne.

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ISBN 10:  1925355365 ISBN 13:  9781925355369
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company, 2016
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