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'From one of Australia's most celebrated writers comes eleven stories about the complexities of life and love; of looking back and longing; of what it means to be a stranger, on foreign ground and known, told with the piercing familiarity and resonance we have come to expect from Helen Garner. Remarkably honest, often very funny and always woven in ways that surprise, these stories tease out everyday life to show the darkness underneath - but also the possibilities of joy.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin Modern Classics)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Fitzroy,
Fitzroy - Collingwood area,
Melbourne - North,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:McPhee Gribble
, 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Postcards from Surfers Postcards from Surfers' Paradise, single work short story (p. 1-16)
- The Dark, the Light, single work short story (p. 17-21)
- In Paris, single work short story (p. 23-28)
- Little Helen's Sunday Afternoon, single work short story (p. 29-40)
- La Chance Existe, single work short story (p. 41-51)
- The Life of Art, single work short story (p. 53-62)
- All Those Bloody Young Catholics, single work short story (p. 63-69)
- A Thousand Miles from the Ocean, single work short story (p. 71-80)
- Did He Pay?, single work short story (p. 81-90)
- Civilisation and its Discontents, single work short story (p. 91-101)
- A Happy Story, single work short story (p. 103-106)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording, large print.
Works about this Work
-
In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan , A Stately Pleasure Dome Decree
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17-18 December 2006; (p. 16-19) From personal experience, novelist Frank Moorhouse explores how the Gold Coast has captured the Australian literary imagination. - y Helen Garner Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 Z417973 1996 single work criticism
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"I'm Writing to Save Myself": An Interview with Helen Garner
Eleanor Wachtel
(interviewer),
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , December no. 10 1993; (p. 57-65) -
[Review] Postcards from Surfers
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
[Review] Postcards from Surfers
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 85)
— Review of Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story
-
Briefings
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 21 1986; (p. 15-16)
— Review of Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Paperbacks : The Ethics, Revised, of Terror, Confusion and Walking the Line
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 23-24 September 1989; (p. 9)
— Review of The Fear 1965 single work novel ; Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story ; A Mixed Bag : Tales from the Top End and Cockpit Yarns 1989 selected work short story -
Whitlam Fictions
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 16 February vol. 11 no. 1989; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Forty-Seventeen 1988 selected work short story ; Kisses of the Enemy 1987 single work novel ; Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Beginning and Arriving : Campbell Promises, Garner Achieves
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1985-1986) no. 77 1985; (p. 32-34)
— Review of Lines of Flight : A Novel 1985 single work novel ; Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Home and Abroad
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , July no. 103 1986; (p. 67-69)
— Review of Their Solitary Way 1985 single work novel ; The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories 1985 selected work short story biography ; Postcards from Surfers : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan , A Stately Pleasure Dome Decree
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17-18 December 2006; (p. 16-19) From personal experience, novelist Frank Moorhouse explores how the Gold Coast has captured the Australian literary imagination. -
"I'm Writing to Save Myself": An Interview with Helen Garner
Eleanor Wachtel
(interviewer),
1993
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , December no. 10 1993; (p. 57-65) -
Helen Garner
1988
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988; (p. 5-24) - y Helen Garner Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1996 Z417973 1996 single work criticism
-
The Small Fiction of a Great Country
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 26-27 December 1987; (p. 4,6)
Awards
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