Name: How to end a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998
Price: 31.69 EUR
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Author: Helen Garner
ISBN: 9780553387490

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How to end a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Type

Physical Book

Author

Helen Garner

Publisher

Pantheon

Language

English

Pages

832

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780553387490

How to end a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Helen Garner (Author) · Pantheon · Hardcover

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Synopsis "How to end a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998"

For the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner, inviting readers into the world behind the novels and nonfiction of a literary force. The name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master of many literary forms, Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of "ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times). But the inspiration for it all was her extensive collection of diaries--fastidiously kept, intricately written, and delightfully dishy, unspooling the inner lives of her insular world in bohemian Melbourne. Now, for the first time, all three volumes of Garner's inimitable diaries are collected into one book. Spanning more than two decades, each finely etched volume reveals Garner like never before: a fledgling author publishing her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s; in the throes of a consuming affair in the late 80s; and clinging to a disintegrating marriage in the late 90s. And all the while, they bear witness to one of the world's great writers hard at work. Devastatingly honest and disarmingly funny, How to End a Story is a portrait of loss, betrayal, and the sheer force of a woman's anger--but also of resilience, quotidian moments of joy, the immutable ties of motherhood, and the regenerative power of a room of one's own.

Helen Garner

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Helen Garner nació en 1942 en Geelong, Australia, en donde creció hasta ingresar en la Universidad de Melbourne. Dio clases en diferentes institutos, pero en 1972 fue despedida por responder a las preguntas de sus alumnos sobre sexo. Garner comenzó entonces a trabajar como periodista. Es autora de una amplia producción literaria tanto de ficción como de no ficción. Su primera novela, Monkey Grip (1977), ganó el National Book Council de Australia y fue adaptada al cine en 1982. Desde entonces, Garner ha publicado varias novelas, cuentos cortos, ensayos y reportajes. La habitación de invitados (2008) es su último título de ficción y uno de sus libros más reconocidos. Entre sus obras de no ficción destacan The First Stone (1995), un controvertido reportaje sobre un caso de abuso sexual en la Universidad de Melbourne; Historias reales (1996; Libros del Asteroide, 2018) y La casa de los lamentos (2014). En 2006 Helen Garner recibió el primer Melbourne Prize for Literature en reconocimiento a su carrera.

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