TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brennan,Bernadette
TI  - A writing life: Helen Garner and her work 
SN  - 9781925498035
U1  - A828.3 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Melbourne, Vic.
PB  - The Text Publishing Company
KW  - Garner, Helen,
KW  - Australian literature
KW  - Authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, Australian
KW  - Biography
KW  - Australia literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Women authors, Australian
KW  - fast
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Australian
KW  - Records and correspondence
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Personal correspondence
N1  - "Brennan maps the writer's books, letters, diaries and unpublished work, including many previously unavailable papers, against the different stages of her life"-- Back cover; Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328)
N2  - 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
ER  -