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Like Carol Shields, Joan Didion and Kate Grenville in previous years, Helen Garner is a bestselling writer waiting to be discovered by a British audience. The Spare Room is an electrifying novel about the distance a friendship must travel, and the depths it must plumb, when confronted by the threat of death.
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Contemporary, intimate, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Helen Garner
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Berlin Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A., Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781408414781
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