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Jan 1, 1977 · In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. It is narrated in first person by the main character, Nora. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Nora's addiction is romantic love; Javo's is hard drugs.
Mar 10, 2012 · It is narrated by Nora, a 30-something divorced woman with a school-aged daughter, who develops a sexual relationship with a junkie called Javo. The diary-style narrative charts this on-off affair, which gradually morphs into an inter-dependent relationship that neither party is willing to break.
Feb 15, 2020 · Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip unpicks the relationship between Nora and Javo. It’s predominantly a story of addiction – Javo has a drug habit and Nora has a ‘Javo-habit’. As frequently as Javo says he is giving up drugs, Nora says she’s done with Javo. Neither stop and that is essentially the beginning and end of the story.
Gerald, a rock musician (guitarist) who tells Nora that he wants to sleep with her after she breaks up with Javo. Hazel. Hazel, Javo’s mother, who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. She and Javo quarrel ...
Feb 20, 2024 · When Nora falls in love with the flighty Javo, she becomes snared in the web of his addiction. And as their tenuous relationship disintegrates, Nora struggles to wean herself off a love that feels impossible to live without. When it first published in 1977, Monkey Grip was both a sensation and a lightning rod. While some critics praised the ...
Monkey Grip initially met with a mixed reception in Australia. [15] Some critics praised Garner's writing, including Peter Corris, who called the writing "attractive and accessible, a pleasure to read" and further commented "[Garner] has the ability to capture movement and stillness and light and sound with words which belong to writers like E.M. Forster and, to give a different but ...
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August 19, 2021. Book Reviews. Monkey Grip is Garner’s debut and is set in the period in which it was written, in mid-1970s Melbourne. I found it fascinating for that reason, as an insight into a young woman’s experience in that era, torn between feminist ideology and romantic love. It is moving, laconic, still fresh 45 years later, telling ...
