An edition of The Spare Room: a novel (2008)

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An edition of The Spare Room: a novel (2008)

The spare room

Large print ed.

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Helen lives in Melbourne, and her friend Nicola flies down from Sydney for a three-week visit. She will sleep in Helen's house, in her lovingly prepared spare room. This is no ordinary visit. Nicola has advanced cancer and is seeking alternative treatment from a clinic in Helen's city. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, gaunt, staggering like a crone, her voice hoarse but still with something grand about her, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge.

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Paragon
Language
English
Pages
141

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Alternative treatment, Literature, Cancer, Fiction, Patients, Female friendship, Australian women writers, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, general, Cancéreux, Romans, nouvelles, Médecines parallèles, Amitié féminine, English literature, Treatment, Friendship, Fiction, medical

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Spare Room
2009, House of Anansi Press
in English
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The spare room
2009, Paragon
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The Spare Room
2009, Text Publishing
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The spare room
2009, Canongate
in English
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La chambre d'amie: roman
2009, P. Rey
in French
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The spare room
2008, The Text Publishing Company
in English
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The spare room: a novel
2008, Henry Holt
in English - 1st ed.
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Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

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Pagination
141 pages
Number of pages
141

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Open Library
OL29217680M
Internet Archive
spareroom0000garn
ISBN 10
1408414783, 1408414775
ISBN 13
9781408414781, 9781408414774
OCLC/WorldCat
630575238

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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. It is full of wisdom, dark laughter and truth.

Prizes for The Spare Room:

  • Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction
  • Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction
  • Barbara Jefferis Award
  • Shortlisted, WA Premier’s Awards, 2008
  • Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction
  • Shortlisted, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
  • Shortlisted, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal
  • Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award

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