![]() She was certain she had settled into reportorial writing until a beloved friend died of cancer, at which point she found herself compelled to return to fiction after 15 years. ![]() ![]() Garner ventured into the world of heroin addicts in the novel “Monkey Grip,” focused on a sexual harassment case in the nonfiction “The First Stone” and turned a journalist’s eye toward murder in “Joe Cinque’s Consolation,” a searing first-person investigation into the manslaughter death of a young Canberra engineer. Like Didion, she is an uncompromising stylist of the minimalist school, a master of ultra-sharp naturalism. Winner of Australia’s Victorian Premier’s Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, Garner is perhaps most easily introduced to new American readers as the Joan Didion of Australia - a person who writes with a diamond drill, depicting human relationships with such brutal clarity they seem to be rendered for the first time. ![]()
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