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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Helen, 1942- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian essays--20th century.

Australian essays.

Australia--Social life and customs.

Australia.

Manners and customs.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.

Local Subjects:

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

636 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2017.

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.

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 ; The feel of steel 1 ; Our mother's flood 2 ; The ukulele club ; Who spilt the wine? ; The nanna-mobile ; Das Bettelein ; Louis' barmitzvah ; 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 ; The 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.

ISBN:

9781925498875

1925498875

OCLC:

992709702