Everywhere I Look

Author(s): Helen Garner

Essays

I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there’s a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of Australia’s greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. 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 Garner’s famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.


Product Information

2017 Indie Book Awards (Non-Fiction)

'Helen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights.' Kate Atkinson on This House of Grief 'Garner's spare, clean style flowers into magnificent poetry.' Australian Book Review on This House of Grief 'Her voice-intimate yet sharp, wry yet urgent-inspires trust.' Atlantic on This House of Grief

Helen Garner is an award-winning author of novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her novel The Spare Room, published in 2008, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award, and has been translated into many languages. Her most recent book is This House of Grief.

General Fields

  • : 9781925355369
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.322
  • : September 2016
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Helen Garner
  • : Paperback
  • : 01
  • : en
  • : 828.91408
  • : 240