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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 19 November 2023 of The New York Times est. 1851 The New York Times
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Disorder Down Under, Daphne Merkin , single work review
— Review of The Children's Bach Helen Garner , 1984 single work novella ; This House of Grief Helen Garner , 2014 single work non-fiction ;

'I had never heard of the Australian writer Helen Garner when I started reading her novel “The Children’s Bach,” and the book puzzled me at first, before I got into the scatty, nonlinear rhythm of its prose. We are immediately introduced to a cluster of characters: Dexter; his wife, Athena; their two little boys, one of them developmentally disabled; the adult sisters Elizabeth and Vicki; Elizabeth’s lover Philip and his adolescent daughter, Poppy. How, I wondered, were the characters connected to one another, and why did Garner’s sentences seem to float through the air like random thoughts?' (Introduction)

(p. 12) Section: Sunday Book Review

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