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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978–1986 Hardcover – July 14, 2020
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherText Publishing Company
- Publication dateJuly 14, 2020
- Dimensions6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-101922268143
- ISBN-13978-1922268143
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‘A natural storyteller.’―James Wood, New Yorker
‘Garner’s stories share characteristics of the postcard: they flash before us carefully recorded images that remind us of harsher realities not pictured. And like postcards they are economically written, a bit of conversation is transcribed, a memory recalled, an event noted, scenes pass as if viewed from a train―momentarily, distinct and tantalizing in their beauty.’―New York Times
‘A perfect introduction for first-timers who have not yet experienced the pleasures of Garner’s writing.’ ―Sydney Morning Herald
'In some ways, the diaries are the apotheosis of her entire career, and the most exciting thing she has ever published.'―Literary Hub on Yellow Notebook
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- Publisher : Text Publishing Company (July 14, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1922268143
- ISBN-13 : 978-1922268143
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,139,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,181 in Journalist Biographies
- #8,079 in Literary Diaries & Journals
- #29,995 in Women's Biographies
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About the author
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing journalism for a living.
Her first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 National Book Council Award, and was adapted for film in 1981. Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays, and feature journalism. Her screenplay The Last Days of Chez Nous was filmed in 1990. Garner has won many prizes, among them a Walkley Award for her 1993 article about the murder of two-year-old Daniel Valerio. In 1995 she published The First Stone, a controversial account of a Melbourne University sexual harassment case. Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004) was a non-fiction study of two murder trials in Canberra.
In 2006 Helen Garner received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her most recent novel, The Spare Room (2008), won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award, and has been translated into many languages.
Helen Garner lives in Melbourne.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2021I am a journal writer. And so am fascinated by those of others. Our life experiences could not have been more disparate but I appreciated her spare honesty about herself and others. The lack of a fifth star is only because something. . . A kind of contradictory ness made me too uncomfortable. But not so much I won’t read her second volume from 1987 to 1995!
- Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022I came to Garner's diaries after reading a review of them in the NY Review of Books. I had never read any of her other work, but I like reading diaries so I took a gamble on this. I'm so glad I did. Reading this is like listening to a close friend talk about her life. She is self-critical. She worries her talent is not big enough. She worries she's not suited for marriage or any other kind of ongoing romantic relationship. She struggles with her parents. And yet, she's funny, witty, sharp, quick to note the good in others. Reading this you'll want to reassure her: "Yes! You are good enough! You're going to get where you want to go!" I found the book addictive and have ordered four more of her books. It's so great to find a new writer you've not heard of before.
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- valerieReviewed in Italy on October 20, 2022
4.0 out of 5 stars a cozy interesting diary
I like this diary for his honesty and sense of humour
- JessicaReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius at work
Her perfect language [Amazon made me delete my quote of her swearing about housework], self doubt, trying new routines, her love for her daughter. Loved it all