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The Collected Short Fiction

Helen Garner Helen Garner

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English
ABC/Audible Audio
01 November 2019
This audiobook brings Helen Garner’s short fiction together into one volume.

Her most loved stories are here: Postcards from Surfers, My Hard Heart and A Happy Story.

Garner’s focus is on love and longing, on the pain, darkness and joy of life, on the unexpected events, no matter how small, that transform us.

Her mastery of the story is revealed in the sharpness of her observation, her honesty and humour, her ear for speech and the rhythm of her prose.

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Imprint:   ABC/Audible Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 122mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   68g
ISBN:   9780655628507
ISBN 10:   0655628509
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature and in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for her non-fiction work. Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature and in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for her non-fiction work.

Reviews for Stories: The Collected Short Fiction

'Her prose is wiry, stark, precise, but to find her equal for the tone of generous humanity one has to call up writers like Isaac Babel and Anton Chekhov.' -- The Wall Street Journal


  • Winner of ASA Medal 2023

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