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(0)Helen Garner
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Nederlands
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Als je ernstig ziek bent en onvoorwaardelijke zorg nodig hebt, dan ga je naar je familie. Maar wat als je geen familie hebt? Helen stelt daarom haar huis open voor haar zieke vriendin Nicola die een ernstige vorm van darmkanker heeft en in Melbourne een alternatieve behandeling begint. De vriendschap tussen de twee vrouwen komt al gauw onder druk te staan wanneer Helen haar twijfels heeft bij de dubieuze behandeling en zich tegelijkertijd transformeert...
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English
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A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women-one dying, the other called to care for her-from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author
How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead-and what strength she must muster-when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer treatment. Skeptical of the medical...
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English
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"Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is available in a new US edition. The Children's Bach follows...
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English
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"Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip follows single mother and writer Nora as she navigates the tumultuous cityscape of Melbourne's bohemian underground, often with her young daughter Gracie in tow. When Nora falls in love with the flighty Javo, she becomes snared in the web of his addiction. And as their tenuous relationship disintegrates, Nora struggles to ween herself off a love that feels impossible to live without."-- Provided by...
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English
Appears on list
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"From one of Australia's most prolific writers comes the engrossing, definitive chronicle of an infamous true-crime saga, about a father suspected of murdering his three sons, the trial that gripped a nation, and the brutal spectacle of Australia's criminal justice system On the evening of September 4, 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, in rural Australia. His car veered...
6) The season
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Language
English
Description
"From the master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand-new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys of being a grandparent. Helen Garner is one of the most "prodigiously gifted" writers of our time (The New York Times Book Review), best known for her intricate portraits of "ordinary people in difficult times" (The New York Times). In The Season, she trains her keen journalistic eye on the most difficult time...
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English
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"A finely etched collection of short stories from the "generous, category-defying imagination" (The New York Times Book Review) of Helen Garner, one of Australia's most beloved writers. A woman sends postcards to a former lover from the idyllic Gold Coast. A chorus of hometown voices gossip about a wayward friend returned. A young girl discovers a hidden box of horrors. Helen Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of...
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English
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"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...
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English
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"The name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master of many literary forms, Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of "ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times). But the inspiration for it all was her extensive collection of diaries--fastidiously kept, intricately written, and delightfully dishy, unspooling the inner lives of her insular world in bohemian Melbourne. Now, for the first time, all...
11) 2 friends
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Language
English
Description
Two teenage friends become estranged when the once conventional Kelly becomes a mohawk-wearing punker who experiments with drugs and casual sex.