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Everywhere I Look [electronic resource]

Garner, Helen, 1942-2016

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-- Everywhere I Look -- Publishers Weekly -- Everywhere I Look‘(Garner) has a way of describing the world with such wisdom and candour and, sometimes, delight, that it takes one’s breath away…at least, it does mine. Her observations about life are refreshing in their honesty…This is a fine collection that offers many delights to the reader.’ Readings -- Daily Review‘Garner’s prose is so very pleasant to read—dry, relaxed sentences that calmly reach out towards loveliness…(Her) willingness to look at and truly see the failures of human behaviour, in herself no less than in others, that lends her work its power.’ -- Age/Sydney Morning Herald‘(Garner’s) writing expresses a hard-won grace. It brings you closer to the world, and shows you how to love it…She has laid the groundwork for a generation of writers; she has repeatedly shown us the glory and the power of an English sentence.’ -- Library Journal ‘A mesmerising collection of essays and diary entries, this is a book to savour and re-read. No one else writes with as much insight, clarity and humour. The diary entries in particular are a treat: tiny fragments of life brilliantly observed and beautifully crafted by one of Australia’s greatest writers.’ Best Non-Fiction Books of 2016, -- ‘ -- ‘Garner is a wonderful appreciator: she invites us into the work under review by leading us along the path of discovery she has followed…Her strongest essays evoke emotion through reticence and suggestiveness. They hint at depth of thought and feeling but never become ponderous. And they reveal both the writer and the world by inviting us into her thoughts so that we can see what she sees. Her successes and her failures show just how hard it for an essayist to answer the question of why we should care – why are personal essays something we might want to spend time on anyway? Her best pieces answer this question: we read them because of the richness of perspective they offer. In them, we see not only a small piece of the world, but also the writer looking at the world and looking back at us, asking us to spend some time gazing at it all right there with her.’ -- Sydney Morning Herald -- Sydney Morning Herald -- Everywhere I Look -- Everywhere I Look -- Everywhere I LookNew Yorker ‘It’s no wonder Garner won a major international award, the $US150,000 Yale-based Wyndham-Campb