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True Stories: Selected Non Fiction

by Helen Garner · 1996

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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.

Setting
AustraliaAustraliaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 242 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of thisessaysessaysMore like thisLess of this

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