Name: Monkey Grip: A Novel
Price: 298.00 ZAR
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Author: Helen Garner
ISBN: 9780593470787

Type

Physical Book

Author

Helen Garner

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780593470787

Monkey Grip: A Novel

Helen Garner (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Monkey Grip: A Novel"

A BBC "100 Books That Shaped the World" "[Helen Garner's] novels give the impression of being in sharper focus than most."--New Yorker The novel that launched the career of one of Australia's greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of late-70s Melbourne Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip follows single mother and writer Nora as she navigates the tumultuous cityscape of Melbourne's bohemian underground, often with her young daughter Gracie in tow. When Nora falls in love with the flighty Javo, she becomes snared in the web of his addiction. And as their tenuous relationship disintegrates, Nora struggles to wean herself off a love that feels impossible to live without. When it first published in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod. While some critics praised the upstart Garner for her craft, many scorned her gritty depictions of the human body and all its muck, her frankness about sex and drugs and the mess of motherhood, and her unabashed use of her own life as inspiration. Today, Monkey Grip is considered a modern masterpiece. A seminal novel of Australia's turbulent 1970s and all it entailed--communal households, thrumming clubs, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex--Monkey Grip now makes its long-overdue American debut.

Helen Garner

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Helen Garner nació en 1942 en Geelong, Australia, en donde creció hasta ingresar en la Universidad de Melbourne. Dio clases en diferentes institutos, pero en 1972 fue despedida por responder a las preguntas de sus alumnos sobre sexo. Garner comenzó entonces a trabajar como periodista. Es autora de una amplia producción literaria tanto de ficción como de no ficción. Su primera novela, Monkey Grip (1977), ganó el National Book Council de Australia y fue adaptada al cine en 1982. Desde entonces, Garner ha publicado varias novelas, cuentos cortos, ensayos y reportajes. La habitación de invitados (2008) es su último título de ficción y uno de sus libros más reconocidos. Entre sus obras de no ficción destacan The First Stone (1995), un controvertido reportaje sobre un caso de abuso sexual en la Universidad de Melbourne; Historias reales (1996; Libros del Asteroide, 2018) y La casa de los lamentos (2014). En 2006 Helen Garner recibió el primer Melbourne Prize for Literature en reconocimiento a su carrera.

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