True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction

True Stories is a collection of short non-fiction works by Australian writer Helen Garner first published in 1996 by Text Publishing.[1][2] The short works in the collection start with Garner's immediate notes as a school teacher to her journalist accounts of visiting a morgue and a maternity ward in a hospital.[3]

First edition

Awards
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References
  1. "True stories : selected non-fiction / Helen Garner". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  2. Carey, Patrick (7 November 2018). "Helen Garner, 'surrounded by BS', still telling it like it is on her 75th birthday". Books and Arts - Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  3. Fiona Wright (7 December 2017). "Stories and True Stories review: The joys of heartbreak and hope with Helen Garner". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 August 2018.


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