Last Days of Chez Nous & Two Friends by Helen Garner - ISBN: 9781925355635
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Intimate, sharp, and funny: explore relationships and friendships in these screenplays.
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Last Days of Chez Nous & Two Friends

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    272 pages

  • Release Date

    27 June 2016

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Summary

The Last Days of Chez Nous & Two Friends

This collection showcases the range of one of Australia’s greatest writers.

  • The Last Days of Chez Nous (film directed by Gillian Armstrong, 1991)
  • Two Friends (film directed by Jane Campion, 1986)

These two screenplays offer funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships that are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner’s acclaimed novels. This edition in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781925355635
ISBN-10:1925355632
Author:Helen Garner, Laura Jones
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:27 June 2016
Weight:186g
Dimensions:24mm x 197mm x 135mm
Series:Text Classics
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Critics Review

‘Helen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights.’

‘Helen Garner is an invaluable guide into harrowing territory and offers powerful and unforgettable insights.’ * Kate Atkinson on This House of Grief *
‘Garner’s spare, clean style flowers into magnificent poetry.’ * Australian Book Review on This House of Grief *
‘Her voice—intimate yet sharp, wry yet urgent—inspires trust.’ * Atlantic on This House of Grief *
‘(Garner’s) humour and pathos shine…The stories are absorbing, the preface, quite fascinating.’ * BookMooch *
‘Exceptional…Garner’s polished script believes in the power and relevance of small domestic moments.’ * LA Times *

About The Author

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, which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Mushroom Tapes, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.

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