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Moving out
154 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1986
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Helen Garner
51 books1,348 followersHelen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.
Her most recent books are The First Stone, True Stories, My Hard Heart, The Feel of Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In 2006 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Melbourne.
Praise for Helen Garner's work
'Helen Garner is an extraordinarily good writer. There is not a paragraph, let alone a page, where she does not compel your attention.'
Bulletin
'She is outstanding in the accuracy of her observations, the intensity of passion...her radar-sure humour.'
Washington Post
'Garner has always had a mimic's ear for dialogue and an eye for unconscious symbolism, the clothes and gestures with which we give ourselves away.'
Peter Craven, Australian
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'
Ed Campion, Bulletin
Her most recent books are The First Stone, True Stories, My Hard Heart, The Feel of Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In 2006 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Melbourne.
Praise for Helen Garner's work
'Helen Garner is an extraordinarily good writer. There is not a paragraph, let alone a page, where she does not compel your attention.'
Bulletin
'She is outstanding in the accuracy of her observations, the intensity of passion...her radar-sure humour.'
Washington Post
'Garner has always had a mimic's ear for dialogue and an eye for unconscious symbolism, the clothes and gestures with which we give ourselves away.'
Peter Craven, Australian
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'
Ed Campion, Bulletin
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January 17, 2015
This Helen Garner novel I enjoyed slightly less than her first, however this doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it.
I found this to be a major contrast to her first, the main point being how 'simple' the writing style and subject was. It is after all aimed at a Teen audience to highlight the difficulties of living between two cultures as a young boy.
I previously fell in love with this author's ability to write such a chaotic story with ease from a descriptive point of view, however this story was lacking in that element. It was all just a bit neat and tidy.
I understand that 'Moving Out' is aimed at an entirely different audience (my partner who is 39 years old advised me he remembers reading this when in school) from that of Monkey Grip , but overall it was a nice zone out novel for me, that did not require too much effort to read it.
I found this to be a major contrast to her first, the main point being how 'simple' the writing style and subject was. It is after all aimed at a Teen audience to highlight the difficulties of living between two cultures as a young boy.
I previously fell in love with this author's ability to write such a chaotic story with ease from a descriptive point of view, however this story was lacking in that element. It was all just a bit neat and tidy.
I understand that 'Moving Out' is aimed at an entirely different audience (my partner who is 39 years old advised me he remembers reading this when in school) from that of Monkey Grip , but overall it was a nice zone out novel for me, that did not require too much effort to read it.
December 29, 2010
True, I was not the target audience in any way, but this still read like a screenplay, rather than an adaptation, or a school assignment. Not a whole lot of fun.
July 5, 2025
Was good to read this all these years on, as I enjoy a Helen Garner deep.dive this year. In my community in 2025, it is the Indian kids facing these kinds of issues.
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