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Monkey grip / Helen Garner ; introduced by Charlotte Wood.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2019Copyright date: ©1977Description: xiv, 333 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781922268358 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.3 23
Contents:
Introduction -- "Hot Concrete and Chlorine" by Charlotte Wood -- "Monkey Grip".
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 823.3 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68323

First published by McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1977.

New edition contains an introduction "Hot Concrete and Chlorine" by Charlotte Wood.

Introduction -- "Hot Concrete and Chlorine" by Charlotte Wood -- "Monkey Grip".

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.

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