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Garner's novel Despair Room was described as bracingly unsentimental, exploring themes of illness, resentment and aging through an autobiographical heroine. It was cited as an example of her willingness to confront difficult subjects.
In her bracingly unsentimental novel Despair Room, the autobiographical heroine looks after a friend with terminal cancer and is flooded with resentment at the dying woman's delusions and narcissism.
— Episode: Marty Baron, Former 'Post' Exec. Editor
Episode: Marty Baron, Former 'Post' Exec. Editor
Garner's novel Despair Room was described as bracingly unsentimental, exploring themes of illness, resentment and aging through an autobiographical heroine. It was cited as an example of her willingness to confront difficult subjects.
In her bracingly unsentimental novel Despair Room, the autobiographical heroine looks after a friend with terminal cancer and is flooded with resentment at the dying woman's delusions and narcissism.