Everywhere I Look

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 227 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. A Collection Of Essays, Diary Entries And True Stories Spanning More Than Fifteen Years Of The Work Of One Of Australia's Greatest Writers.

Publishers Description: Garner is a recipient of the 2016 Wyndham-Campbell Prize for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garners work as intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.A captivating collection of personal essays and diary entriesNo matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice exemplifies the range of what is possible in personal writing.Publishers WeeklyGarner brings to the collection not only her tremendous powers of observation but a continued employment of those skills to force readers to confront unpleasant truths. The graceful prose with which she delivers her insights will challenge readers to look at what is happening around them.Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)Like strolling around in an idiosyncratic, surprising, and informative museum.KirkusCompulsively readable essays.Observer[Garner] doesnt merely listen. She watches, imagines, second-guesses, empathises, agonises. Her voiceintimate yet sharp, wry yet urgentinspires trust."Atlantic"She writes with a profound understanding of human vulnerability, and of the subtle workings of love, memory and remorse.EconomistHelen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights.Kate Atkinson on This House of GriefSimilar to a hike, the book is best enjoyed without straining to finish it. Its full of moments to pause and reflect. More importantly, it stirs up that addictive, expansive feeling only the best books can achieve: that you have reached the final page changed, perhaps even a better and more thoughtful person from having travelled alongside Garners observations for a time.Daily Review on Everywhere I LookThis is Garner in expansive mood writing gracefully about everything from her family to ballet to the dawn service.The Spectator on Everywhere I LookGarners prose is so very pleasant to read dry, relaxed sentences that calmly reach out towards loveliness[Her] willingness to look at and truly see the failures of human behaviour, in herself no less than in others, that lends her work its power.Guardian on Everywhere I LookA rich, beautiful book by a poet of the everyday, a sheer master of prose. Give it to your grandmother, give it to your tweeting girlfriend. Give it to any man or woman who understands the magic of language. It will hurl them into great gulfs of pleasure, of turmoil and understanding and joy.Australian on Everywhere I LookTheres not a word wasted or out of place. Garner observes, intuits, shares and cares about the lives she writes about like no-one else. Readers will laugh, cry, squirm and gasp and wonder. Its Garners unique gift as a writer, and its beautifully realized in Everywhere I Look.Books + PublishingTHIS HOUSE OF GRIEF won the Honorable Mention in the INDIEFAB 2015 Book of the Year Awards, True Crime categorySpanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of intuition, insight, lucidity and humor. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice.Everywhere I Look includes Garners famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look is filled with the wisdom of life.Helen Garner is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Spare Room was published to critical acclaim in 2010. Her work of true crime This House of Grief received international praise across the globe.

ISBN: 9781925355369