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Helen Garner

Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.

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Title:: Monkey Grip
Written by:: Helen Garner
Read by:: Helen Garner
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 7
Duration:: 8 hours 9 minutes
Published:: January 01 2020
Available Date:: January 01 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655644866
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: ABC Audio

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Winner ASA Medal 2023

Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love – Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends.

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.

'This is the power of Garner’s writing. She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life ...'
The Australian

‘Her use of language is sublime.’
Scotsman