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A writing life : Helen Garner and her work / Bernadette Brennan.

By: Publisher: Melbourne, Vic. : The Text Publishing Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925498035
  • 1925498034
Other title:
  • Alternate title [Other title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A828.3 23
Awards:
  • 2018 Stella Prize longlist.
Summary: Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She has never been afraid to write herself into her nonfiction, and many of her own experiences help to shape her fiction. But who is the ‘I’ in Helen Garner’s work? Bernadette Brennan’s A Writing Life is the first full-length study of Garner’s forty years of work, a literary portrait that maps all of her books against the different stages of her life. Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner’s archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia’s most beloved women of letters.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 823.3 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68271

"Brennan maps the writer's books, letters, diaries and unpublished work, including many previously unavailable papers, against the different stages of her life"-- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328)

Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She has never been afraid to write herself into her nonfiction, and many of her own experiences help to shape her fiction. But who is the ‘I’ in Helen Garner’s work? Bernadette Brennan’s A Writing Life is the first full-length study of Garner’s forty years of work, a literary portrait that maps all of her books against the different stages of her life. Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner’s archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia’s most beloved women of letters.

2018 Stella Prize longlist.

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