One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995

One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995
Helen Garner
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1 Nov 2022 AU
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9781922458933
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Why should it be any different from any other love affair? Why shouldn' t it run through its phases, wither, and die? I' d better work if I want to survive this, and if I want to play my full and proper part in it. Who wants a lovesick, lazy drip, obsessed with her own emotions and full of resentment against fate? I can only live the thing to its fullest extent. This is what life is. It' s not for saying no. Helen Garner' s second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another-how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both thrilling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work.
' Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life' s secular apocalypses. . . her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive. ' * James Wood, New Yorker * ' On the page, Garner is uncommonly fierce, though this usually has the effect on me of making her seem all the more likable. I relish her fractious, contrarian streak - she wears it as a chef would a bloody apron - even as I worry about what it would be like to have to face it down. ' * Guardian * ' A rich insight into what it means to be an artist. Not just a writer but any kind of artist where the pull of the work surpasses everything else. Reading these snatches of life being lived is like being given a painting you love gleaming with the still-wet paint. ' * Helen Elliott, Australian on Yellow Notebook *
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the prestigious Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier' s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and in 2020 she received the Lloyd O' Neill Award for her outstanding contribution to the industry. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children' s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque' s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, True Stories and Yellow Notebook.
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ISBN-13: 9781922458933
Published: 1 Nov 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320

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