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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2009
Summary
‘I see why people rave about her, I will now too.’ Samantha Harvey
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit—Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her.
From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge.
The Spare Room tells a story of compassi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921520280 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921520280 |
| Author: | Helen Garner |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
‘Garner’s gradual awakening to her unadmitted anger is what gives her best book, her novel The Spare Room, much of its shattering power…The novel closes: “It was the end of my watch, and I handed her over.” Helen has done as much as she can do. It is a typical Garner sentence, a writing lesson (all novels should end as completely) and a life lesson: spare, deserved, and complexly truthful, both a confession of failure and a small song of success.’ – James Wood * New Yorker *
‘I see why people rave about her, I will now too.’ * Samantha Harvey *
‘It’s so lucid and real and sharp and interesting and subtle and well observed and devoid of filigree and puffery and any wasted anything. It’s so efficient and glorious.’ * Julia Turner, Slate Culture Gabfest *
About The Author
Helen Garner
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season, How to End a Story- Collected Diaries, which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Mushroom Tapes, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.
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