![]() ![]() ![]() Garner gave me access to the NLA files, but went further in answering every query that I have put to her. I did not wish to write one, but I knew that the intersection and overlap of her life and art made discussion of the biographical essential to understanding her work. ‘She established at the outset that she did not want a biography. Bernadette Brennan’s A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work does both in spades.īrennan, an academic and researcher in contemporary Australian literature, approached the prospect of mapping the landscape that created Garner, author of some of Australia’s most contentious and beloved writing, with understandable nervousness – shared by Garner herself: The litmus test of a good book about a writer is whether reading it makes me want to revisit the subject’s work – and visit the works I haven’t yet. Available in selected bookshops nationwide. ![]()
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