{"product_id":"2026100008943-secondhand-monkey-grip-signed","title":"Monkey Grip (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First US Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped, with small tears along the edges. Pages: Yellowed; fep clipped. Binding: remains tight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nHelen 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49313640480987,"sku":"2026100008943-SECONDHAND","price":650.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3db27757-cfd5-4b83-8d45-2a6952602e7c.png?v=1789524773","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008943-secondhand-monkey-grip-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}