The Resource The spare room, Helen Garner
The spare room, Helen Garner
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Resource Information
The item The spare room, Helen Garner represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge. The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments. Garner's dialogue is pitch-perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The spare room
- Title
- The spare room
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Garner
- Subject
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- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Literary prize winners
- trueMelbourne, Victoria
- truePeople with cancer
- truePeople with terminal illnesses
- trueWomen
- trueWomen caregivers
- trueWomen with cancer
- trueWomen with terminal illnesses
- trueAlternative medicine
- Australian author
- Australian fiction
- trueCancer
- Cancer -- Alternative treatment
- Cancer -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- trueFemale friendship
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge. The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments. Garner's dialogue is pitch-perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale
- Award
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- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award, 2008.
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2008.
- Barbara Jefferis Award, 2009.
- Awards note
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- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 291382
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Garner, Helen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
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- Literary prize winners
- Cancer
- Friendship
- Australian fiction
- Label
- The spare room, Helen Garner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9781921520280
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)(Text Publishing, 2009)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781921351396
- Label
- The spare room, Helen Garner
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9781921520280
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)(Text Publishing, 2009)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781921351396
Subject
- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Literary prize winners
- trueMelbourne, Victoria
- truePeople with cancer
- truePeople with terminal illnesses
- trueWomen
- trueWomen caregivers
- trueWomen with cancer
- trueWomen with terminal illnesses
- trueAlternative medicine
- Australian author
- Australian fiction
- trueCancer
- Cancer -- Alternative treatment
- Cancer -- Fiction
- trueDeath
- Death -- Psychological aspects
- trueFemale friendship
Genre
Included in
- trueBarbara Jefferis Award (Australia)
- trueQueensland Premier's Literary Awards: Fiction Book Award
- trueVictorian Premier's Literary Awards: Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
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