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Everywhere I Look

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by Helen Garner
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Publication Date: 29/03/2016
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Helen Garner is one of Australia’s greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range.

I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring.
Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice.
 
Everywhere I Look includes Garner’s famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer.
       
Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.

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ISBN:
9781925355369
9781925355369
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-03-2016
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
230
Dimensions (mm):
234x154x18mm
Weight:
0.32kg
Helen Garner

Helen Garner (born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977, and immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene. She is known for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her both praise and criticism, particularly with her novels, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room.

Throughout her career, Garner has written both fiction and non-fiction. She attracted controversy with her book The First Stone about a sexual harassment scandal in a university college. She has also written for film and theatre, and has consistently won awards for her work.

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Fragmented observations of life, acutely measured by the impossible brain of Helen Garner.

Humble, heartfelt writing from the last few decades of her prolific career. Includes some gems that have never been released in print prior to this collection. Subject matter flies from dog-minding to the death of loved-ones to the corridors of the Supreme Court. This author writes with the kind of respect and honesty that makes you feel wiser for having read her.

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