![]() | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Melbourne (Vic.) - Social life and customs - 1965- Fiction. 'A lyrical, rough-edged novel full of warmth and uncompromising feeling' The Sunday Age."- Website.įirst published by McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1977.Īustralian fiction. Her first book, Monkey Grip (1977), is an intelligent, tautly written novel that chronicles some of Garner’s own experiences from the nineteen-seventies, in particular her life in what she. But caught in an increasingly ambiguous relationship, they are unable to let go - and the harder they pull away from each other, the tighter the monkey grip. A frank portrayal of a year in the life of a. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make sense of their lives and the choices they have made. With Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels, Alice Garner, Harold Hopkins. In this acclaimed first novel, Helen Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends who are living and loving in new ways. Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. It initially received a mixed critical reception, but has now become accepted as a classic of modern Australian literature. "Monkey Grip (1977) is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. ![]() Melbourne, Victoria : Penguin Group (Australia), 2008 ![]() National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
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