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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As a Helen Garner fangirl, have to own up and say that it's impossible for me to be objective about this book - I love it!. Structured around the writing and release of each of Garner's books, Bernadette Brennan had access to HG's archive, as well it seems, her massive circle of friends and family. By accounts, Garner's not always an easy woman, a seeker, an observer with an enormous need to sort out her thoughts and feelings in writing. An understated intellectual, who is fully immersed in many communities. The book is full of wonderful stories, some jar ... but the ending, in particular, is magnificent. I am so happy that I've read this book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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