True stories: Selected non-fiction

by Helen Garner

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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 50 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, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary audiobook, spanning 25 years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.… (more)

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A collection of short stories based on her own life. Everyone has stories. It has me remembering aspects of my own life in vivid detail. She's a master observer and recorder of the human condition. (

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velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 |

Collected non-fiction articles from the early seventies until the mid-nineties. They include the sex education class that got Garner sacked from the education department, the aftermath of her controversial book [The First Stone], observing autopsies at the morgue, a short cruise on a Russian ship, the award-winning "Killing Daniel"about the death of the little boy Daniel Valerio, weddings at the registry office. Garner is an acute and sympathetic observer. (

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Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers (Winner – 1997)

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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 50 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, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary audiobook, spanning 25 years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.

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