True Stories (Hardcover)

Hardcover. 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. A collection of more than thirty years of Garner's short non-fiction, in celebration of her seventy-fifth birthday. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.