The Spare Room by Helen Garner (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Spare Room by Helen Garner Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment. A story of compassion and rage as two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicolas gruelling treatments. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit-Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her.From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge.The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women-one sceptical, one stubbornly serene-negotiate their way through Nicolas gruelling treatments. Garners dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale. Author Biography Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premiers Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Spare Room, This House of Grief and Everywhere I Look. Review Garners gradual awakening to her unadmitted anger is what gives her best book, her novel The Spare Room, much of its shattering power…The novel closes: "It was the end of my watch, and I handed her over." Helen has done as much as she can do. It is a typical Garner sentence, a writing lesson (all novels should end as completely) and a life lesson: spare, deserved, and complexly truthful, both a confession of failure and a small song of success. -- James Wood * New Yorker * Prizes Winner of Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Fiction (Australia). Winner of Queensland Premiers Award for Fiction (Australia). Winner of Barbara Jefferis Award (Australia). Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers Prize. Short-listed for Australian Literary Society Gold Medal (Australia). Short-listed for Colin Roderick Award (Australia). Short-listed for WA Premiers Awards (Australia). Short-listed for NSW Premiers Literary Award for Fiction (Australia). Review Quote Garners gradual awakening to her unadmitted anger is what gives her best book, her novel The Spare Room , much of its shattering power...The novel closes: "It was the end of my watch, and I handed her over." Helen has done as much as she can do. It is a typical Garner sentence, a writing lesson (all novels should end as completely) and a life lesson: spare, deserved, and complexly truthful, both a confession of failure and a small song of success. Details ISBN1921520280 Author Helen Garner Pages 208 Year 2009 ISBN-10 1921520280 ISBN-13 9781921520280 Format Paperback Imprint The Text Publishing Company Place of Publication Melbourne Country of Publication Australia DEWEY A823 Publication Date 2009-09-28 Publisher Text Publishing Language English Alternative 9781921776441 Audience General NZ Release Date 2009-09-27 AU Release Date 2009-09-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:21712793;

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