![]() ' 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. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. ![]() 'Spanning fifteen years of work, Helen Garner’s Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments-sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and laughter. No one but another writer understands it-the heaving about of great boulders into a stable arrangement so that you can bound up them and plant your little flag at the very top. 'Everywhere I Look' is a collection of short works, spanning fifteen years. Signed and dated, on the Title page by Journalist, Screenwriter, and Multi Award Winning Author Helen Garner, in person, during the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 18, 2016. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the linking passages I’ve written are leading me up a garden path, or are sentimental, or violate some unarticulated moral and technical code I’ve signed up to and feel trapped in or obliged to. Australian Softcover First Edition-First Printing. ' Every day I work on the edit of my book. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2016 9174059 2016 selected work essay Abstract ![]() Appears in: y Everywhere I Look Helen Garner, ![]()
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