Cosmo Cosmolino
$17.39
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2012
Summary
Introduced by Ramona Koval
He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy.
Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to expl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921922206 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1921922206 |
| Author: | Helen Garner |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | Text Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘In person, as on the page, Garner does not dominate or take centre stage; she doesn’t boss or harass or hector. She is never still, never fixed, dealing in no absolutes except for the power of the eye to see, and the power of the pen to record. This restlessness, this energy, brings her hurtling off the page towards the reader.’ * Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sydney Review of Books *
Helen Garner
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and the Australian Society of Authors Medal.
Her books include:
- Monkey Grip
- The Children’s Bach
- The First Stone
- Joe Cinque’s Consolation
- The Spare Room
- This House of Grief
- The Season
- How to End a Story: Collected Diaries (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction)
- The Mushroom Tapes (with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein)
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