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True stories : the collected short non-fiction / by Helen Garner.

By: Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 636 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925498875
Other title:
  • True stories
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 824.4 23
Contents:
Prologue: Why she broke -- True stories (Part one: A scrapbook, an album [The schoolteacher ; Why does the women get all the pain? ; My child in the world ; Sad grove by the ocean ; At Nine Darling Street ; A scrapbook, an album ; Wan, tew, three, faw ; Three acres, more or less] ; Part two: Sing for your supper [The art of the dumb question ; Patrick White: the artists as holy monster ; Sing for your supper ; Cypresses and spires: writing for film ; Dreams, the Bible and Como Comolino ; Elizabeth Jolley's war ; Germaine Greer and the menopause ; On turning fifty] ; Part three: The violet jacket [At the morgue ; Sunday at the gun show ; The violet jacket ; Killing Daniel ; The fate of The First stone] ; Part four: Cruising [Cruising ; Aqua profonda ; A day at the show ; Five train trips ; Beggars in New York ; Mr Tiatapu ; Marriage ; Death ; Labour ward, Penrith])
The feel of steel (Writing home ; The goddess of weeping ; Regions of thick-ribbed ice ; Woman in a green mantle ; Tower diary ; Sighs too deep for words ; Melbourne's famous water ; Tutto Sereno ; A spy in the House of Parliament ; Baby coughs ; Our mother's flood 1 ; Moon-gazing ; My blue glasses ; Into thin air ; Baby goes to the movies ; Charlie's match ; Tess bows out ; Pie boy at the Fracture Clinic ; At Freedom ;Auntie's clean bed ; Have respect ; Our mother's flood 2 ; The ukulele club ; Who spilt the wine? ; The nanna-mobile ; Das Bettelein ; Golden sandals ; The feet of steel 2 ; Arrayed for the bridal)
Everywhere I look (Part one: White paint and calico [Whisper and hum ; Some furniture ; White paint and calico ; Suburbia] ; Part two: Notes froma brief friendship [Dear Mrs. Dunkley ; Eight views of Tim Winton ; Notes from a brief friendship ; From Frogmore, Victoria ; My dear lift-rat] ; Part three: Dreams of her real self [While not writing a book: diary 1 ; Red dog: a mutiny ; Funk paradise: diary 2 ; Dreams of her real self ; Before whatever else happens: diary 3] ; Part four: On darkness [Punishing Karen ; The singular Rosie ; Rhe city at night ; The man in the dock ; On darkness] ; Part five: The journey of the stamp animals [The journey of the stamp animals ; Worse things than writers can invent ; How to marry your daughters ; X-ray of a pianist at work ; Gall and barefaced daring ; The rules of engagement ; The rapture of firsthand encounters ; Hit me] ; Part six: On the wings [My first baby ; Big brass bed ; Dawn service ; A party ; The insults of age ; In the wings])
Summary: Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show.She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 824.4 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68273

Signed by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Why she broke -- True stories (Part one: A scrapbook, an album [The schoolteacher ; Why does the women get all the pain? ; My child in the world ; Sad grove by the ocean ; At Nine Darling Street ; A scrapbook, an album ; Wan, tew, three, faw ; Three acres, more or less] ; Part two: Sing for your supper [The art of the dumb question ; Patrick White: the artists as holy monster ; Sing for your supper ; Cypresses and spires: writing for film ; Dreams, the Bible and Como Comolino ; Elizabeth Jolley's war ; Germaine Greer and the menopause ; On turning fifty] ; Part three: The violet jacket [At the morgue ; Sunday at the gun show ; The violet jacket ; Killing Daniel ; The fate of The First stone] ; Part four: Cruising [Cruising ; Aqua profonda ; A day at the show ; Five train trips ; Beggars in New York ; Mr Tiatapu ; Marriage ; Death ; Labour ward, Penrith])

The feel of steel (Writing home ; The goddess of weeping ; Regions of thick-ribbed ice ; Woman in a green mantle ; Tower diary ; Sighs too deep for words ; Melbourne's famous water ; Tutto Sereno ; A spy in the House of Parliament ; Baby coughs ; Our mother's flood 1 ; Moon-gazing ; My blue glasses ; Into thin air ; Baby goes to the movies ; Charlie's match ; Tess bows out ; Pie boy at the Fracture Clinic ; At Freedom ;Auntie's clean bed ; Have respect ; Our mother's flood 2 ; The ukulele club ; Who spilt the wine? ; The nanna-mobile ; Das Bettelein ; Golden sandals ; The feet of steel 2 ; Arrayed for the bridal)

Everywhere I look (Part one: White paint and calico [Whisper and hum ; Some furniture ; White paint and calico ; Suburbia] ; Part two: Notes froma brief friendship [Dear Mrs. Dunkley ; Eight views of Tim Winton ; Notes from a brief friendship ; From Frogmore, Victoria ; My dear lift-rat] ; Part three: Dreams of her real self [While not writing a book: diary 1 ; Red dog: a mutiny ; Funk paradise: diary 2 ; Dreams of her real self ; Before whatever else happens: diary 3] ; Part four: On darkness [Punishing Karen ; The singular Rosie ; Rhe city at night ; The man in the dock ; On darkness] ; Part five: The journey of the stamp animals [The journey of the stamp animals ; Worse things than writers can invent ; How to marry your daughters ; X-ray of a pianist at work ; Gall and barefaced daring ; The rules of engagement ; The rapture of firsthand encounters ; Hit me] ; Part six: On the wings [My first baby ; Big brass bed ; Dawn service ; A party ; The insults of age ; In the wings])

Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show.She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling.

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