Cosmo Cosmolino
$12.70
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2012
Summary
He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy.
Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukeleles, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921922206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921922206 |
| Author: | Helen Garner |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 197mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘In person, as on the page, Garner does not dominate or take centre stage; she doesn’t boss or harass or hector. She is never still, never fixed, dealing in no absolutes except for the power of the eye to see, and the power of the pen to record. This restlessness, this energy, brings her hurtling off the page towards the reader.’ * Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sydney Review of Books *
About The Author
Helen Garner
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, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room. She lives in Melbourne.
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