The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library

Helen Garner: Death and Friendship

The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free author event with Helen Garner on Wednesday 25 August 2010 at 6.00 for 6.30pm.

Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

Renowned author, Helen Garner, will speak about her book The Spare Room, a story of compassion, humour and rage, and her first novel in fifteen years.

"The Spare Room is a story of tough love and friendship and amazement at the bravado and resourcefulness of human beings in the face of death, written in a prose that has surgical precision." - Geoffrey Lehmann, The Australian

"Much of the special charge of The Spare Room is that of a fiction that seems to have been made very close to the writer's life. ... The Spare Room does what the best fiction does: it makes you stop arguing, in that flat easy way, about what people should do. It reminds us we might not know what anyone should do, until we have to watch them doing it." - Sean O'Beirne, Readings Carlton

Garner's novel has won the prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award.

Sorry - this event is fully booked - no more bookings can be accepted !

Bookings by Monday 23 August to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064

Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited. Seating is limited to 150 people.

Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library

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