True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 1921351845
- ISBN-13
- 9781921351846
- Series
- True Stories
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-09-29
- Publisher
- Text Publishing
- Author
- Helen Garner
Description
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, 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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
By Wendy Call, Mark Kramer. . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists.
-
True Stories: Tales from the Generation of a New World Culture
By Garrick BeckPart memoir, part eyewitness history, part storytelling, this book takes you on a rollicksome ride through a generation of experiences.
-
True (. . . Sort Of)
True (. . . Sort Of)
-
True Stories: Guides for Writing from Your Life
By Susan Wheeler, Rebecca RuleWe all have stories to tell about our lives and the lives of people we know. Rebecca Rule and Susan Wheeler help new and experienced writers commit those stories to...
-
Amazing True Stories
By Don L. WulffsonAn Italian priest who floats on air!? These are just a few of the remarkable true stories in this book. Some many shock you, perhaps even scare you. Others will leave you shaking your head in disbelief for they are all amazing true stories.
-
True Stories: And Other Essays
By Francis SpuffordAn irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the ...
-
True Story
By Kate Reed PettyA gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep.
-
True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries
By Kathy Barco, Valerie NyeGayle Hornaday received her MLS from the University of Illinois at ChampaignUrbana in 1977 and has been a public librarian for over thirty years. Her first library job was during college, typing catalog cards.
-
Nature Attacks! (I Survived True Stories #2)
By Lauren TarshisFrom fourteen-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks of 1916, to nine-year-old who survived the Peshtigo fire of 1871 (which took place on the very same day in history as the Great Chicago Fire!), here are four unforgettable survivors ...
-
Even More True Stories Student Book with Essential Online Resources Level 4, Silver Edition
By Sandra HeyerThese stories and more--humorous, poignant, astonishing--are true! True Stories 1A, Silver Edition, consists of 20 human-interest stories adapted from newspapers and magazines. The stories are told in simple yet natural language.