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Monkey Grip

Monkey Grip

Pages
245
Published
1984
Language
English

Synopsis

In "Monkey Grip", Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Nora's addiction is romantic love; Javo's is hard drugs. The harder they pull away, the tighter the monkey grip. A lyrical, gritty, rough-edged novel that deserves its place as a classic of Australian fiction.

About the author

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Helen Garner

Helen Garner is an Australian writer recognized for her nonfiction accounts of legal cases and human behavior. She is the author of The Mushroom Tapes Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, This House of Grief, and the novel The Spare Room.