Monkey Grip
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 5th November 2019
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.26
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.