{"product_id":"9781925626070","title":"True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life’s secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.’   James Wood, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen 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 \u003ci\u003eThe First Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGarner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction is always passionate and compelling. \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary book, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Garner\u003c\/b\u003e writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eEverywhere I Look\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘[Garner’s] writing expresses a hard-won grace. It brings you closer to the world, and shows you how to love it.’   \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Helen Garner is one of Australia’s greatest living writers and her collection of essays, diary entries and stories written over almost 50 years is just the thing for the lover of fine writing. A compilation of three non-fiction collections, \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e covers everything from family, love and marriage, sex and motherhood to travel, writing and criminal trials. Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, Can’t-Put-Down Titles for Summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eTrue Stories\u003c\/i\u003e by Helen Garner—I mean, really. Helen. Helen Garner. Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of glitter cannons exploding in my heart.’ \u003cb\u003eMarieke Hardy, Melbourne Writers Festival Staff Summer Reading List\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Garner can write about everything for every reader…Her tone throughout is one of considerable charm and approachability. Five minutes in Garner’s company, you feel, and you’d be telling her your deepest secrets.’ \u003cb\u003eNeil Stewart, \u003ci\u003eCivilian Global\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Memoirist, fiction writer, faction writer, journalist? Australian critics and booksellers have stopped trying to pigeonhole Melburnian writer Helen Garner and now just give her prizes…These stories and essays are the work of a natural storyteller, of an unsparing yet sympathetic eye…It’s all wonderful stuff: unstinting honesty, clarity and charm. Dive in.’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘This is the power of Garner’s writing. She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAustralian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138680176880,"sku":"9781925626070","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925626070_p0.jpg?v=1763635339","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925626070","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}