Monkey Grip
Autor Helen Garneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2025
Helen Garner's 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780593470787
ISBN-10: 0593470788
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0593470788
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Descriere
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'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF
'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE
'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS
In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman.
She is happy moving between the city's communal households, with her little daughter. Happy with days spent at the public pool, and nights spent dancing and drinking and talking and smoking and loving freely.
But then Nora meets Javo. Javo, with his crooked, wrecked, wild face and his violently blue eyes. And soon she is trapped in the monkey grip of his drug addiction and her own obsessive love for him.
On its first publication in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod due to its frank portrayal of the lives of Garner's generation. Now a modern classic, it introduces us to Helen Garner's dazzling and radical literary voice.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Lauren Groff
'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF
'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE
'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS
In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman.
She is happy moving between the city's communal households, with her little daughter. Happy with days spent at the public pool, and nights spent dancing and drinking and talking and smoking and loving freely.
But then Nora meets Javo. Javo, with his crooked, wrecked, wild face and his violently blue eyes. And soon she is trapped in the monkey grip of his drug addiction and her own obsessive love for him.
On its first publication in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod due to its frank portrayal of the lives of Garner's generation. Now a modern classic, it introduces us to Helen Garner's dazzling and radical literary voice.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Lauren Groff
Recenzii
It's the crystalline austerity of Garner's sentences that most enthral me now in Monkey Grip. The lives may be chaotic; the language is anything but. Its cadences are beautiful, its images ever striking, the prose gleaming with a tender, almost chivalrous formality . . . I love Garner's sense of joy; her gutsy, worried humility; her hilarious sense of humour
Brooding, sensual, smartly-written . . . This is one of Garner's greatest talents: her ability to portray life on the page as it's really lived, chaotic, scrappy, sometimes wonderful and oftentimes horrible
Whichever form she's inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them
An intelligent, tautly written novel . . . Garner is a natural storyteller
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
Her use of language is sublime
A dreamy sojourn in the druggy, sexy counterculture of mid-1970s Melbourne, Australia . . . High times with the mother of autofiction
Acclaimed Australian writer Garner's achingly poignant portrait of a young woman and the drug addict she loves rings with an authenticity that is, by turns, frustrating and sweet . . . In buoyant and vivid prose, Garner evokes the lies, deceptions, delusions, and hope that come with a life always lived on the edge of despair or delight
Brooding, sensual, smartly-written . . . This is one of Garner's greatest talents: her ability to portray life on the page as it's really lived, chaotic, scrappy, sometimes wonderful and oftentimes horrible
Whichever form she's inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them
An intelligent, tautly written novel . . . Garner is a natural storyteller
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
Her use of language is sublime
A dreamy sojourn in the druggy, sexy counterculture of mid-1970s Melbourne, Australia . . . High times with the mother of autofiction
Acclaimed Australian writer Garner's achingly poignant portrait of a young woman and the drug addict she loves rings with an authenticity that is, by turns, frustrating and sweet . . . In buoyant and vivid prose, Garner evokes the lies, deceptions, delusions, and hope that come with a life always lived on the edge of despair or delight
Notă biografică
HELEN GARNER writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, and her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I'll Remember This, and How to End a Story.