Monkey Grip: The sun-soaked modern classic from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize - Couverture souple

Garner, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399606786 ISBN 13 : 9781399606783

Editeur : W&N, 2024

Synopsis

'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF
'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE
'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS

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 due to its frank portrayal of the lives of Garner's generation. Now a modern classic, it introduces us to Helen Garner's dazzling and radical literary voice.

A W&N Essential with an introduction by Lauren Groff

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The novel that launched the career of one of Australia's greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399606786
• ISBN 13: 9781399606783
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible