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The Children's Bach
Published 29 October 2018
ISBN 9781925773040
Format Hardback
Extent 172pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00

The Children's Bach

  • Introduced by Ben Lerner
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Paperback
5 Nov 2019
Hardback
29 Oct 2018
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29 Oct 2018
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A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors—now in an elegant hardback edition

Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter’s university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her lover, Philip, she brings an enticing world to their doorstep. And Athena finds herself straining at the confines of her life.

Helen Garner portrays her characters with a clear eye for their dreams, their insecurities and their deep humanity in this intimate and engaging short novel, which was first published in 1984. The Children’s Bach is ‘a jewel’, in Ben Lerner’s description, ‘beautiful, lapidary, rare’.
Published 29 October 2018
ISBN 9781925773040
Format Hardback
Extent 172pp
AU Price $29.99
NZ Price $37.00
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About the authors

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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Ben Lerner - Introducer

Ben Lerner was born in Kansas in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard and MacArthur Foundations. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award. His second novel, 10:04, was a finalist for the Folio Prize and was named one of the best books of 2014 by more than a dozen major publications. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry), and Mean Free Path. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.
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Also by Helen Garner

The Mushroom Tapes
The Season
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
How to End a Story
The Spare Room
Monkey Grip
How to End a Story
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Rights for The Children's Bach

Rights held: World

Rights sold: ANZ audio—Bolinda; Brazil—Todavia; France—Editions Christian Bourjois; Germany—Berlin Verlag; Greece—Dardanos; Italy—Nottetempo; North America—Pantheon/PRH USA; Norway—Aschehoug; Poland—Wydawnictwo Cyranka; Romania—Editura Trei; Turkey—Yapi Kredi Kultur; UK & Comm (excl ANZ & Canada)—Weidenfeld & Nicolson.