{"product_id":"monkey-grip","title":"Monkey Grip - A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe novel that launched the career of one of Australia’s greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim. A master novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, Garner is best known for her frank, unsparing, and intricate portraits of Australian life, often drawn from the pages of her own journals and diaries. Now, in a newly available US edition, comes the disruptive debut that established Garner's masterful and quietly radical literary voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Australia in the late 1970s, \u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip\u003c\/i\u003e follows single mother and writer Nora as she navigates the tumultuous cityscape of Melbourne’s bohemian underground, often with her young daughter Gracie in tow. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it first published in 1977, \u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip \u003c\/i\u003ewas both a sensation and a lightning rod. While some critics praised the upstart Garner for her craft, many scorned her gritty depictions of the human body and all its muck, her frankness about sex and drugs and the mess of motherhood, and her unabashed use of her own life as inspiration. Today, such criticism feels old-fashioned and glaringly gendered, and \u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip \u003c\/i\u003eis considered a modern masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA seminal novel of Australia’s turbulent 1970s and all it entailed—communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex—\u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip \u003c\/i\u003enow makes its long-overdue American debut.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51166917493024,"sku":"9780553387452","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780553387452.jpg?v=1769723035","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/monkey-grip","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}