Monkey Grip
- Auteur: Helen Garner (Australië)
- Soort boek: Australische roman uit 1977
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: McPhee Gribble
- Uitgever: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Verschijnt: 14 maart 2025
- Omvang: 352 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Helen Garner Monkey Grip review en recensie
- “It’s the crystalline austerity of Garner’s sentences that most enthral me now in Monkey Grip. The lives may be chaotic; the language is anything but. Its cadences are beautiful, its images ever striking, the prose gleaming with a tender, almost chivalrous formality … I love Garner’s sense of joy; her gutsy, worried humility; her hilarious sense of humour.” (Charlotte Wood, Guardian)
- “Whichever form she’s inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them.” (Max Lui, Financial Times)
- “Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking.” (Lauren Groff)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1977 van de Australische schrijfster Helen Garner
In 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman.
She is happy moving between the city’s communal households, with her little daughter. Happy with days spent at the public pool, and nights spent dancing and drinking and talking and smoking and loving freely.
But then Nora meets Javo. Javo, with his crooked, wrecked, wild face and his violently blue eyes. And soon she is trapped in the monkey grip of his drug addiction and her own obsessive love for him.
On its first publication in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod in its frank portrayal of the lives of a generation. Now a modern classic, it shows Helen Garner’s dazzling and radical literary voice.
Helen Garner is born 7 November 1942 in Geelong, Victoria,
Australia. She writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-
fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2019. And in 2023 she was awarded the ASA Medal for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature. Her works include five novels Monkey Grip, Moving Out, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. She also wrote non fiction books like This House of Grief, The Season and three volumes of her diaries. Garner lives in Melbourne.