Monkey Grip Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip

    • 4.0 • 24 Ratings
    • $16.99
    • $16.99

Publisher Description

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.

Helen Garner is one of Australia’s finest authors. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her novels include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room.


I rolled and rolled in the water, deafening my ears while I thought of, and discarded, all the reasons why I shouldn’t go. I popped up, hanging on to the rail, hair streaming on my neck.


‘OK. I’ll come.’


Javo was looking at me.


So, afterwards, it is possible to see the beginning of things, the point at which you had already plunged in, while at the time you thought you were only testing the water with your toe.



‘Garner is a natural storyteller.’ James Wood, New Yorker


‘Her use of language is sublime.’ Scotsman


‘This is the power of Garner’s writing. She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.’ Australian


‘Its embattled characters are so real that by the last page you feel not just that you have read a magnificent novel but that you have experienced life itself.’ The Times on The Spare Room

'What Garner offers in these novels is an alternative to the cloying metafiction of the late 20th century and the washed-out realism of the 21st. They are undeniably of their time – the 1970s commitment to the liberating possibilities of sex, drugs and communal living in Monkey Grip, the hangover nursed in the 1980s in The Children’s Bach – but they also belong to a literary epoch we think of as long gone, as they earnestly strive to resurrect a modernist art of estrangement.' London Review of Books

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
29 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
The Text Publishing Company
SELLER
Text Publishing
SIZE
1.4
MB

More Books Like This

Very Nearly Normal Very Nearly Normal
2020
Between Octobers Between Octobers
2014
Just Went Out For Milk Just Went Out For Milk
2014
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
2016
The Salesman The Salesman
2011
Peace Peace
2012

More Books by Helen Garner

This House of Grief This House of Grief
2014
Joe Cinque's Consolation Joe Cinque's Consolation
2007
Everywhere I Look Everywhere I Look
2016
The Spare Room The Spare Room
2010
How to End a Story How to End a Story
2021
The Children’s Bach The Children’s Bach
2018

Customers Also Bought

Grand Days Grand Days
2011
Carpentaria Carpentaria
2006
The Choke The Choke
2017
Voss Voss
2012
Cloudstreet Cloudstreet
2012
Benevolence Benevolence
2020