Results for "Garner, Helen"

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers • "It’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."—New York Times"The Children’s Bach is [Garner’s] m... Read More about The Children's Bach: A Novel

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • The engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure •"This House of Grief, in its rest... Read More about This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

The novel that launched the career of one of Australia’s greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s countercultureThe name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master novelist, short-story writer, and j... Read More about Monkey Grip: A Novel

In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the joys and limits of female friendship under the transforming pressure of illness. "The clear-eyed grace of her prose" in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as "the work of a great writer." Garlanded... Read More about The Spare Room: A Novel

Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton's short-story collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it. "The terror Baynton evokes," Helen Garner writes in her introduction to the book, "is elemen... Read More about Bush Studies (Text Classics)

These screenplays showcase the range of one of Australia's greatest writers. The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1991, and Two Friends by Jane Campion in 1986. These funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner'... Read More about The Last Days of Chez Nous & Two Friends