Monkey Grip - Hardcover

Helen Garner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1925773159 ISBN 13: 9781925773156

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company, 2019

Synopsis

Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. In her acclaimed debut, first published in 1977, Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends. Nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. When Nora falls in love with Javo, she's caught in the web of his addiction, and her life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.

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Review:

'Monkey Grip (1977), was made into a film, and the precision of her prose, the way she lets her images hint at psychological depths that her characters barely comprehend, feels tautly cinematic.'--The Wall Street Journal; 'Garner is a natural storyteller.'--James Wood, The New Yorker; 'Her use of language is sublime.'--The 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.'--The Australian; '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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1925773159
• ISBN 13: 9781925773156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 172