True stories : the collected short non-fiction / Helen Garner.
True stories : the collected short non-fiction / Helen Garner.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2017.
Uniform title
Call Numbers
H 2017/3732
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
636 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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: Sin...
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...
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 th...
Publication information
Publisher
Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2017.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2017.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Scope and Contents
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 h...
Alternative Titles
Full title
True stories : the collected short non-fiction / Helen Garner.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed 2017.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
H 2017/3732
Record Identifier
74VKVg0OR583
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVg0OR583
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9781925498875
DDC
824.914
MMS ID
991024148515602626
