How to End a Story
How to End a Story
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How to End a Story by Helen Garner
These expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers
I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her acute, rigorous, pitch-perfect best -- Nigella Lawson
Long before I was a writer, I was a Helen Garner reader and fanHer collected diaries are entrancing. It's rare we get to track the development of a great writer at such close quarters from her earliest days, revealed to us with such energy, freshness and intensity. But it's all here: the fearlessness, the unapologetic honesty, the ruthless self-examination and most important of all, the clarity of her gaze, the great delicacy and precision of her language. I will return to these diaries for the rest of my days -- Charlotte Wood
I come back again and again to Garner's diaries and always find something new to admire. Her wit and observations are brilliant and her thoughts on writing are a guide -- Daisy Johnson
I love Helen Garner's diaries. I would read her grocery lists. I must have underlined something on every page -- Fatima Bhutto
Not since reading Virginia Woolf's collected diaries has the life and times of one exceptional writer leapt so vividly from the page. Helen Garner 's renaissance should be sealed with this landmark publication - a writer both absolutely of Australia and of the entire world -- Catherine Taylor
Australia's greatest writer of nonfiction. How to End a Story concludes with one of the most candidly brutal accounts of the end of a creative marriage I've read * Observer *
Intimate, precise, sharp, vivid and funny, Helen Garner's diaries grant us not only vital insight into her creative process and concerns, but also to the inner workings of a great mind engaged in the business of daily life -- Lisa Owens
Many writers' diaries have been published, but none carry the singular acuity, wit, and electric grace of Helen Garner's. A blend of pillow talk, bar gossip, and eavesdropping on therapy, they offer an intoxicating, astute account of the deep emotional movements of Garner's life over two decades -- Leslie Jamison
Helen Garner is a genius who never stops paying attention. Her chilling account of a failing marriage is as propulsive as any thriller -- Jessica Stanley
The diaries are the apotheosis of Helen Garner's entire career, and the most exciting thing she has ever published . . . Polished and spare, like the very short stories of Diane Williams and Lydia Davis . . . Beautiful, riveting, formally electrifying * Literary Hub *
Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses * New Yorker *
On the page, Garner is uncommonly fierce, though this usually has the effect on me of making her seem all the more likable. I relish her fractious, contrarian streak - she wears it as a chef would a bloody apron * Guardian *
Long before I was a writer, I was a Helen Garner reader and fanHer collected diaries are entrancing. It's rare we get to track the development of a great writer at such close quarters from her earliest days, revealed to us with such energy, freshness and intensity. But it's all here: the fearlessness, the unapologetic honesty, the ruthless self-examination and most important of all, the clarity of her gaze, the great delicacy and precision of her language. I will return to these diaries for the rest of my days -- Charlotte Wood
I come back again and again to Garner's diaries and always find something new to admire. Her wit and observations are brilliant and her thoughts on writing are a guide -- Daisy Johnson
I love Helen Garner's diaries. I would read her grocery lists. I must have underlined something on every page -- Fatima Bhutto
Not since reading Virginia Woolf's collected diaries has the life and times of one exceptional writer leapt so vividly from the page. Helen Garner 's renaissance should be sealed with this landmark publication - a writer both absolutely of Australia and of the entire world -- Catherine Taylor
Australia's greatest writer of nonfiction. How to End a Story concludes with one of the most candidly brutal accounts of the end of a creative marriage I've read * Observer *
Intimate, precise, sharp, vivid and funny, Helen Garner's diaries grant us not only vital insight into her creative process and concerns, but also to the inner workings of a great mind engaged in the business of daily life -- Lisa Owens
Many writers' diaries have been published, but none carry the singular acuity, wit, and electric grace of Helen Garner's. A blend of pillow talk, bar gossip, and eavesdropping on therapy, they offer an intoxicating, astute account of the deep emotional movements of Garner's life over two decades -- Leslie Jamison
Helen Garner is a genius who never stops paying attention. Her chilling account of a failing marriage is as propulsive as any thriller -- Jessica Stanley
The diaries are the apotheosis of Helen Garner's entire career, and the most exciting thing she has ever published . . . Polished and spare, like the very short stories of Diane Williams and Lydia Davis . . . Beautiful, riveting, formally electrifying * Literary Hub *
Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses * New Yorker *
On the page, Garner is uncommonly fierce, though this usually has the effect on me of making her seem all the more likable. I relish her fractious, contrarian streak - she wears it as a chef would a bloody apron * Guardian *
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781399606745 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399606743 |
| Title | How to End a Story |
| Author | Helen Garner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2025-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 832 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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