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Everywhere I Look

af Helen Garner

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I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there's a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. Everywhere I Look includes Garner's famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.… (mere)

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I like a good sentence and love a writer that cares about sentences. The highs and lows in this cleverly arranged collection of essays felt like a beautiful landscape. The low points being a kind of lowland swamp of monotone jottings in the central part of the book. Rising out of this swamp, in a rapid ascent to the court room, where it's as though Helen Garner finds her natural stride as we traverse insightful delights. In Part 4 On Darkness

But everybody knows that love is brutal. A thousand songs tell the story. Love tears right through the centre of us, into our secret self, it lays it wide open. Surely Sigmund Freud was right when he said, 'We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.' p.146

When I finished these essays, I felt grateful to have Helen Garner as a commentator and intellectual guide on so much that is familiar to me. Not only with inner Melbourne (and Sydney) but also with the films and books she writes so eloquently about. That said, I'm certainly going to find a copy of Janet Malcolm’s [b:Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers|16059462|Forty-One False Starts Essays on Artists and Writers|Janet Malcolm|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1376835501l/16059462._SX50_.jpg|21858277]

You feel the intense pleasure she gets from thinking. She keeps coming at things from the most unexpected angles, undercutting the certainty she has just reasoned you into accepting, and dropping you through the floor into a realm of fruitful astonishment, and sometimes laughter. p.182

...in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps that is what dreaming, and art, are for. p. 152

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simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |

Really adores Helen Garner's style, and the way she interracts with the world. Adored her essay about her teacher, ''Dear Mrs Dunkley'' and about the dog who attacked her ''Red Dog: A Mutiny." She seems to see herself and the world pretty clearly, and she's very observant. Lots of good advice about aging too (indirectly, she'd never give advice). (

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Afriendlyhorse | Sep 20, 2023 |

Truly magnificent, bordering on perfect! Garner observations are detailed and astute across an expansive range of subject matter. She then converts these, along with insightful analysis, into diary entries, essays and stories with writing so eloquent I often stopped to reread segments, reflect, and wonder at the skill and grace. Brutally honest, about herself as much as others, but also tender and often hilarious, these pieces are mesmerising. (

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crimson-tide | Sep 16, 2020 |

She has a lovely turn of phrase and a delightful choice of words. Phrases that needed capturing often appeared.
‘he spoke with a gracious simplicity and with an impressive mastery of the Pause’
‘Gaita is a small, agile fellow, a rock climber from way back. Up he goes, smooth as a lizard. He leans down to me.’
‘I set out to write about my mother, but already I am talking about my father.
He is easy to write about. He was a vivid, obstreperous character who's jolting behaviour was a spectacle, an endurance test that united his children in opposition to him. Things he did or fail to do gave rise to hundreds of stories that we still share and embellish.’
In one chapter ‘The Singular Rosie’ she sensitively tells about her meeting and interviewing Rosie Batty, whose son, Luke, was murdered by his father. Very well reported.
An excellent book. Easy and pleasing to read. (

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GeoffSC | Jul 25, 2020 |

I very nearly gave up on this very early on, after all there is very little that a thrice married, 70 year old Australian grandmother and I actually have in common. The first few essays struck me as rather self centred and not terribly interesting to anyone else. But she became a lot more interesting when discussing other people. The essays were divided into seciton and that entitled "On Darkness" concerning crime and punishment both now and in the past, was the most interesting and by far the most moving of the sections. The seciton that focussed on literary fiction was very engaging and her essay on reading Jane Austen was very astute. As the essays passed either I became more attuned to her voice and her turn of phrase or she did become more engaging and open.
I've not heard of her before and while, based on this, I'm not going to actively seek out her work, I wouldn't shy away from reading some of her other non-ficiton. (

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I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there's a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. Everywhere I Look includes Garner's famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life.

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