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Helen Garner – Monkey Grip

Helen Garner Monkey Grip review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1977 van de Australische schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Monkey Grip van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster Helen Garner. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

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)

Helen Garner Monkey Grip

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

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-Monkey Grip 1977 Novel by Helen Garner the Australian Writer First Editionfiction. 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 (De logeerkamer). She also wrote non fiction books like This House of Grief, The Season and three volumes of her diaries. Garner lives in Melbourne.

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Michelle de Kretser – Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice recensie, review en informatie van de nieuwe roman van de op Sri Lanka geboren Australische schrijfster. Op 18 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van Michelle de Kretser. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice recensie, review en informatie

  • “This appears to be De Kretser’s impetus: to tread where Woolf refrained, to push the margins of what a novel can look and feel like. It also asks questions of the act of reading itself . . . This is a book of intrusions: of unacknowledged inequalities, of flawed maternal figures, of raw human emotions (our ‘morbid symptoms’) . . . So much is condensed into its brief length, not least of which is a probing interrogation of novels and why we write them . . . As De Kretser accomplishes in Theory & Practice, they allow witness of life’s ‘messy, human truth,’ told without shame.” (Jack Calil, The Guardian)
  • “Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection.” (Sigrid Nunez, schrijfster)

Michelle de Kretser Theory & Practice

Theory & Practice

  • Auteur: Michelle de Kretser (Australië)
  • Soort boek: Australische coming of age-roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 18 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 25,00 / $ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Michelle de Kretser

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

It’s 1986, and “beautiful, radical ideas” are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a “deconstructed relationship.” They become lovers, and the narrator’s feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf’s diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser’s new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

Michelle de Kretser was born in 1957 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her family emigrated to Australia when she was a teenager, and she was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of five novels, including the Miles Franklin Award winners Questions of Travel and The Life to Come, the Man Booker Prize long–listed The Lost Dog, and a novella, Springtime. De Kretser now lives in Sydney with her partner, the poet and translator Chris Andrews. She is an honorary associate of the English department at the University of Sydney.

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