True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner

‘Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and exact, with sharp eyes and ears. She is far and wide right now, gazing and listening, a recording angel at life’s secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her readability compulsive.’  James wooden, New Yorker

Helen Garner visits the morgue, and is going cruising on a Russian send. She sees ladies giving start, and will get the sack for educating her scholars approximately intercourse. She attends a college dance and a gun convey. She writes approximately dreaming, approximately turning fifty, and the typhoon because of The First Stone. Her tale at the homicide of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.

Garner seems on the international with a smart and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is often passionate and compelling. True Stories is a rare publication, spanning fifty years of labor, through one in every of Australia’s nice writers.

Helen Garner writes novels, tales, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she acquired the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she gained the distinguished Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier's booklet Award. Her newest ebook, Everywhere I Look gained the 2017 Indie booklet Award for Non-Fiction.

‘[Garner’s] writing expresses a hard-won grace. It brings you toward the realm, and indicates you ways to like it.’  Monthly

‘Garner can write approximately every little thing for each reader…Her tone all through is certainly one of massive appeal and approachability. 5 mins in Garner’s corporation, you're feeling, and you’d be telling her your inner most secrets.’ Neil Stewart, Civilian Global