{"product_id":"how-to-end-a-story-collected-diaries-1978-1998","title":"How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHow to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHelen Garner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780553387490\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePantheon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time ever, collected here are all three volumes of the diaries of Helen Garner--an Australian literary master, who famously pulled her greatest works straight from the pages of her own journals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of \"ordinary people in difficult times\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). But the inspiration for it all was her extensive collection of diaries--fastidiously kept, intricately written, and delightfully dishy, unspooling the inner lives of her insular world in bohemian Melbourne. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, for the first time, all three volumes of Garner's inimitable diaries are collected into one book. Spanning more than two decades, each finely etched volume reveals Garner like never before: a fledgling author publishing her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s; in the throes of a consuming affair in the late 80s; and clinging to a disintegrating marriage in the late 90s. And all the while, they bear witness to one of the world's great writers hard at work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDevastatingly honest and disarmingly funny, \u003ci\u003eHow to End a Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of loss, betrayal, and the sheer force of a woman's anger--but also of resilience, quotidian moments of joy, the immutable ties of motherhood, and the regenerative power of a room of one's own.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 | Helen Garner | Hardcover | 9780553387490 | New | Letters \u0026 Diaries 1624759","offer_id":50698718216450,"sku":"1624759","price":61.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71VeKkuQNQL.jpg?v=1791573166","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/how-to-end-a-story-collected-diaries-1978-1998","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}