Monkey Grip
Author: Garner, Helen
ISBN: 9781925773156
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 29 Oct 2018
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's career
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and 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; and 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.
ISBN: 9781925773156
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year first published: 29 Oct 2018
Pages: 352
Format: Hardback
An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's career
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and 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; and 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.
