Monkey Grip (novel)

Monkey Grip (novel)
Monkey Grip  
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Author(s) Helen Garner
Country Australia
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher McPhee Gribble
Publication date 1977
Media type Print
Pages 245
ISBN 0140049533
OCLC Number 11950836
Dewey Decimal 823 19
LC Classification PR9619.3.G3 M6 1984
Followed by Honour & Other People's Children

Monkey Grip (1977) is a novel by Australian writer Helen Garner, her first published book. It initially received a mixed critical reception, but has now become accepted as a classic of modern Australian literature. A film based on the novel, also titled Monkey Grip, was released in 1982.

Contents

Plot summary

The novel is set in Melbourne in the mid 1970s. Nora is a single parent with a stable job as a teacher, but she lives in an inner-city shared house, part of a bohemia of students, musicians, and actors ...and junkies. Nora falls in love with Javo, an actor and a junkie. She drifts away from him, he drifts away from her. The harder they pull away from each other, the tighter the monkey grip.[1]

Themes

Kerryn Goldsworthy writes that almost all of Garner's fiction addresses "the relationship between sexual behaviour and social organisation; the anarchic nature of desire and the orderly face of the institution of 'family'".[2]

Critical reception

Monkey Grip initially met with a mixed reception.[3] It is now recognised as a classic of modern Australian literature.[4]

Movie adaptation

In 1982, the novel was adapted to the film Monkey Grip directed by Ken Cameron from his own screenplay. The lead actors were Noni Hazlehurst and Colin Friels.[5]

References

  1. ^ Perry Middlemiss (1 May 2002). "Monkey Grip Helen Garner 1977". www.middlemiss.org. http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/garnerh/monkeygrip.html. Retrieved 25 November 2008. 
  2. ^ Goldsworthy, Kerryn (1996) Australian Writers: Helen Garner, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, p. 28
  3. ^ Goldsworthy (1996) p. 1
  4. ^ Featured Modern Classics at Penguin Classics
  5. ^ Monkey Grip at the Internet Movie Database

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