True stories : the collected short non-fiction / by Helen Garner.
Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 636 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925498875
- True stories
- Australian essays -- 21st century
- Short stories
- Essays -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Australian essays
- Manners and customs
- Essays -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts
- Short stories
- Australian essays -- 20th century
- Australia
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Australia -- Social life and customs
- Australian
- 824.4 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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