True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction (Audio CD; unabridged; 7 CDs)
Winner of the 1997 Kibble Award for Literature, True Storiesspans 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. 'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.' Bulletin
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- : Bolinda Audio Books,Australia
- : Bolinda Audio Books,Australia
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- : 28 April 2017
- : 0.19
- : --- length: - '13.4' width: - '14.6' units: - Centimeters
- : audio