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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. 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. 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 . I rolled and rolled in the water, deafening my ears while I thought of, and discarded, all the reasons why I shouldn't go. I popped up, hanging on to the rail, hair streaming on my neck. 'OK. I'll come.' Javo was looking at me. So, afterwards, it is possible to see the beginning of things, the point at which you had already plunge

Who reads Monkey Grip?

Author

Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781925773156

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.72 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13