Monkey Grip - Couverture rigide

Garner, Helen; Wood, Charlotte

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1925773159 ISBN 13 : 9781925773156

Editeur : The Text Publishing Company, 2018

Synopsis

An elegant hardback edition of the novel that launched Helen Garner's career

Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature- communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex.

When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction; and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora's life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Monkey Grip (1977), was made into a film, and the precision of her prose, the way she lets her images hint at psychological depths that her characters barely comprehend, feels tautly cinematic.'--The Wall Street Journal; 'Garner is a natural storyteller.'--James Wood, The New Yorker; 'Her use of language is sublime.'--The Scotsman; 'This is the power of Garner's writing. She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.'--The Australian; 'So real that by the last page you feel not just that you have read a magnificent novel but that you have experienced life itself.' --The Times on The Spare Room;

'What Garner offers in these novels is an alternative to the cloying metafiction of the late 20th century and the washed-out realism of the 21st. They are undeniably of their time - the 1970s commitment to the liberating possibilities of sex, drugs and communal living in Monkey Grip, the hangover nursed in the 1980s in The Children's Bach - but they also belong to a literary epoch we think of as long gone, as they earnestly strive to resurrect a modernist art of estrangement.' --London Review of Books

Présentation de l'éditeur

Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. In her acclaimed debut, first published in 1977, Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends. Nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. When Nora falls in love with Javo, she's caught in the web of his addiction, and her life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Text Publishing Company
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925773159
• ISBN 13: 9781925773156
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible