{"product_id":"9781925626179","title":"Stories: The Collected Short Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e‘Garner is a natural storyteller.’ James Wood, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This handsome edition of Helen Garner’s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia’s most loved authors.\u003cbr\u003e These stories—that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life—are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner’s mastery of the form. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHelen Garner \u003c\/b\u003ewrites 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 Literature Prize for non-fiction. Garner won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction for \u003ci\u003ePostcards from Surfers\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Victorian and Queensland Premiers’ Awards, as well as the Barbara Jefferis Award, for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Spare Room\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEverywhere I Look\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non Fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Garner’s stories share characteristics of the postcard: they flash before us carefully recorded images that remind us of harsher realities not pictured. And like postcards they are economically written, a bit of conversation is transcribed, a memory recalled, an event noted, scenes pass as if viewed from a train—momentarily, distinct and tantalising in their beauty.’   \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A perfect introduction for first-timers who have not yet experienced the pleasures of Garner’s writing.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eStories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories\u003c\/i\u003e are handsome companion volumes deservedly celebrating Helen Garner, our greatest contemporary practitioner of observation, self-interrogation and compassion. Everything she writes, in her candid, graceful prose, rings true, enlightens, stays.’ \u003cb\u003eJoan London, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e’s Year in Reading\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Published in beautiful editions to celebrate life given shape in words.’ \u003cb\u003eDrusilla Modjeska, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e’s Year in Reading\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ‘Both of these books are concerned with moments of heartbreak and of hope, with loneliness and love, and with great cruelties, and the things that drive people to them. They are animated by a desire to understand what seems unfathomable, and to pay attention to the small pleasures of the everyday. Garner's precise descriptions, her interest in minute shifts of emotion, and the ways in which we reveal ourselves to others are always at work in these books, and make them a real joy to read.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138604744944,"sku":"9781925626179","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925626179_p0.jpg?v=1763635150","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925626179","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}