Monkey Grip (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First US Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped, with small tears along the edges. Pages: Yellowed; fep clipped. Binding: remains tight.
In the sun-drenched yet shadowy communal households of 1970s Melbourne, a woman named Nora finds herself locked in a devastating, compulsive love affair with Javo, a charismatic heroin addict who cannot be saved. Monkey Grip is a raw, semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the intoxicating highs and grinding lows of co-dependent desire, set against the backdrop of a bohemian subculture defined by share houses, music, and the seductive recklessness of the counterculture generation. Helen Garner writes with a fierce, confessional intimacy that transformed Australian literature upon the novel's first publication in 1977, winning the National Book Council Award and signalling the arrival of a major literary voice. Her prose is diary-like in its immediacy — spare, honest, and unsparing — dissecting obsessive love and female autonomy with a precision that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. Decades on, the question Garner poses remains as urgent and unanswered as ever: at what point does love become its own kind of addiction?
Author: Helen Garner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Seaview Books
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First US Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped, with small tears along the edges. Pages: Yellowed; fep clipped. Binding: remains tight.
In the sun-drenched yet shadowy communal households of 1970s Melbourne, a woman named Nora finds herself locked in a devastating, compulsive love affair with Javo, a charismatic heroin addict who cannot be saved. Monkey Grip is a raw, semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the intoxicating highs and grinding lows of co-dependent desire, set against the backdrop of a bohemian subculture defined by share houses, music, and the seductive recklessness of the counterculture generation. Helen Garner writes with a fierce, confessional intimacy that transformed Australian literature upon the novel's first publication in 1977, winning the National Book Council Award and signalling the arrival of a major literary voice. Her prose is diary-like in its immediacy — spare, honest, and unsparing — dissecting obsessive love and female autonomy with a precision that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. Decades on, the question Garner poses remains as urgent and unanswered as ever: at what point does love become its own kind of addiction?