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In "Monkey Grip", Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. 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. The... read more
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Quotes edit
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“No work, no love from where she wants it.”
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
In the old brown house on the corner, a mile from the middle of the city, we ate bacon for breakfast every morning of our lives.
Table of Contents edit
Acqua Profonda
More Politely than Shaking Hands
I Didn't Know Where I Was
I Heard the Curtain Going Up
Only His Next of Kin
Respectful of His Fragility
No Fade from Distance
Willy's Trick Parcel
Was That Somebody Knocking?
It Makes You Forget Your Friends
What a Wonderful Guy
Blind White Eyes
Do You Wanna Dance?
I Just Can't Keep from Crying
Respect
Two Bob Each Way on Everything
Teach Me How to Feel Again
Damned Hide
In such a House of Dreams
Holy in the Orchard
Too Ripped
A Fate She Had Believed Implacable
Fall in Their Own Good Time
Tiny Puncture Holes
Attitudes of Struggle and Flight
Chlorine and Rock & Roll
Left with a Gritty Residue
Flapping like a Bloody Bandage
No Logic
Nothing to Give, or Say
I'll Do Anything You Ask
Dog Day
A Woman of My Age
Let It Be What It Is
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Helen Garner (Author)
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