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Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics upon its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece—a novel that shines a light on a time, a place, and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex.
When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction. As he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora's life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.
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Reviews of Monkey Grip highlight Helen Garner's natural storytelling ability and sublime use of language. Critics praise her writing for its precision and profound impact, offering readers distilled experiences of life. This novel, in particular, is noted for capturing the 1970s spirit with its exploration of sex, drugs, and communal living, aiming to revive a modernist style of estrangement.
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ISBN: 9781925773156
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 October 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 242.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 172
About the Author
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her novels include The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. She lives in Melbourne.
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