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Monkey Grip
Published 5 November 2019
ISBN 9781922268358
Format Paperback
Extent 352pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

Monkey Grip

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Paperback
5 Nov 2019
Hardback
29 Oct 2018
EBook
29 Oct 2018
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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. This iconic design now available in a smaller and competitively priced format.

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.
Published 5 November 2019
ISBN 9781922268358
Format Paperback
Extent 352pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

Helen Garner

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Mushroom Tapes, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.
portrait photo of Helen Garner

Also by Helen Garner

The Mushroom Tapes
The Season
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
How to End a Story
The Spare Room
Everywhere I Look
The Children's Bach
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