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Winner of the 1997 Kibble Award for Literature, True Stories spans twenty-five years of work by one of Australia's great writers."Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia." — The BulletinHelen Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia's great writers. In this extraordinary collection of non-fiction stories, Helen Garner visits the morgue and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She watches 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 about the storm caused by her book 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, with its many voices, is passionate and compelling.

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Author

Helen Garner

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781875847242

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (173 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14