True Stories: Selected Non-FictionHelen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award. Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her non-fiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia’s great writers. |
Contents
The Art of the Dumb Question | 1 |
The schoolteacher | 25 |
Why Does the Women Get All the Pain? | 35 |
My Child in the World | 43 |
A scrapbook an Album | 59 |
The Artist as Holy Monster | 117 |
sing for Your supper | 124 |
Writing for Film | 131 |
At the Morgue | 165 |
sunday at the Gun show | 176 |
The Fate of The First stone | 193 |
Cruising | 207 |
Aqua Profonda | 223 |
A Day at the show | 229 |
beggars in new York | 246 |
labour Ward Penrith | 265 |