A writing life : Helen Garner and her work
Brennan, Bernadette2017
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Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft. But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She has never been afraid to write herself into her nonfiction, and many of her own experiences help to shape her fiction. But who is the ‘I’ in Helen Garner’s work? Bernadette Brennan’s A Writing Life is the first full-length study of Garner’s forty years of work, a literary portrait that maps all of her books against the different stages of her life. Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner’s archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia’s most beloved women of letters.
Main title:
A writing life : Helen Garner and her work / Bernadette Brennan.
Author:
Brennan, Bernadette, author
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017.©2017
Collation:
334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781925498035 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A828.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
394155