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Gabrielle Carey's mother had always been pedantically punctual and organised. So when she begins to forget where she put her purse — and even where she put her dentures — Gabrielle knows something is wrong. Scans reveal a brain tumour and doctors advise its urgent removal. But there is another urgency at hand. Biding the dreadful passing of time in doctors' waiting rooms, Gabrielle begins to realise how much her mother has left untold‚ how many questions she still wants to ask her‚ and how little time there is left for answers.
ISBN 9781921372629
Scribe Publications (2009)
A fascinating memoir of a woman of our times, Gabrielle Carey deftly explores her own life experience to make wider observations on the nature of writing and writers‚ the cult of celebrity‚ the Protestantism of Australia and living in a Third World country.Three personal essays: each a brimful of wonder.
ISBN 9780733319822
ABC Books (2006)
A selection of non-fiction pieces that explores many questions related to death and dying‚ including public and private responses to death and cultures as diverse as Ireland‚ Mexico‚ Australia and the US. Contributors include American writers Thomas Lynch and Kathryn Harrison‚ Irish writer Christopher Hope‚ Canadian writer John Ralston Saul‚ Indian writer Githa Hariharan‚ and Australian historian‚ Inga Clendinnen.
ISBN 0140259384
Penguin Books (1997)
A collection of stories written by women about their experiences of birth‚ babies and lives lived beyond the moment when a child comes into the world and the whole world is changed forever.
ISBN 978-0091831318
Publisher: Ebury Press (1996)
The baby of a poverty-stricken Mexican Indian mother is borrowed by a wealthy childless couple. As the child grows up in a life of privilege‚ she feels increasingly drawn to her Náhautl Indian heritage and the ways of the peasant farmer campesinos.
ISBN 9780330355988
Picador Australia (1994)
After the birth of her daughter in a Mexican village, Gabrielle Carey returned home to see her family. The day before she arrived, her father committed suicide. In My Father's House is an attempt to find out why. Part eulogy, part a moving last letter from a loving daughter.
ISBN 13 9780330272940
Picador Australia (1992)
A poignant account of a love affair, a totally honest portrait of two people — and a fierce indictment of our prisons and the ways we choose to punish people.
ISBN 0140074252A
Penguin Books (1984)
A seminal narrative of teenage life in 70's Australia, Puberty Blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who don't quite make the cut: it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count. At once hilarious and horrifying, this painfully honest account of the way many teenagers live — and some die — is as painfully true today as it ever was.
ISBN 0869140108
Current Imprint: Pan Macmillan (2009)
McPhee Gribble (1979)