Everywhere I look
By: Helen Garner
Publisher: Text Publishing Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781925355369
Subjects: Authorship; Life
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Whisper and hum; title: Some furniture; title: White paint and calico; title: Suburbia; title: Dear Mrs Dunkley; title: Eight views of Tim Winton; title: Notes from a brief friendship; title: From Frogmore, Victoria; title: My dear lift-rat; title: While not writing a book: diary 1; title: Red dog: a mutiny; title: Funk paradise: diary 2; title: Dreams of her real self; title: Before whatever else happens: diary 3; title: Punishing Karen; title: The singular Rosie; title: The city at night; title: The man in the dock; title: On darkness; title: The journey of the stamp animals; title: Worse things than writers can invent; title: How to marry your daughters; title: X-ray of a pianist at work; title: Gall and barefaced daring; title: The rules of engagement; title: The rapture of firsthand encounters; title: Hit me; title: My first baby; title: Big brass bed; title: Dawn service; title: A party; title: The insults of age; title: In the wings.