Bibliograph

One day I'll remember this, diaries, Helen Garner, Volume II, 1987-1995

Type

Label

One day I'll remember this, diaries, Helen Garner, Volume II, 1987-1995

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One day I'll remember this

Responsibility statement

Helen Garner

Sub title

diaries

Summary

Garner is one of our most respected and revered writers. This collection spans several years in her earlier career, when she also embarked on a relationship with an eminent writer. While documenting her thoughts and practising her craft, Garner also offers us an insight into the private life of a woman who is deciding for herself what a meaningful relationship with a married man and a meaningful life might look like. 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 furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, 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 enthralling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work and the enduring value of friendship

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

One day I'll remember this, diaries, Volume two, 1987-1995One day I will remember this

Classification

Creator