An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's career
Helen Garner writes 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 Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her novels include The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. She lives in Melbourne.
‘Garner is a natural storyteller.’
*James Wood, New Yorker*
‘Her use of language is sublime.’
*Scotsman*
‘This is the power of Garner’s writing. She drills into experience
and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once
you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of
writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this
reason Garner has become part of us all.’
*Australian*
‘Its embattled characters are so real that by the last page you
feel not just that you have read a magnificent novel but that you
have experienced life itself.’
*The Times on The Spare Room*
'What Garner offers in these novels is an alternative to the
cloying metafiction of the late 20th century and the washed-out
realism of the 21st. They are undeniably of their time – the 1970s
commitment to the liberating possibilities of sex, drugs and
communal living in Monkey Grip, the hangover nursed in the 1980s in
The Children’s Bach – but they also belong to a literary epoch we
think of as long gone, as they earnestly strive to resurrect a
modernist art of estrangement.'
*London Review of Books*
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