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Helen Garner's Monkey Grip is an ABC TV documentary by writer and director Fiona Tuomy. The film explores the real people and events behind Helen Garner's groundbreaking debut novel Monkey Grip and the impact it had on Australia's artistic, political and cultural identity.
Mar 10, 2012 · Monkey Grip, now regarded as an Australian classic, won the National Book Council Award in 1978 and was turned into a film in 1982 starring Noni Hazlehurst, Colin Friels and the author’s daughter, Alice Garner.
The Australian writer Helen Garner published her debut novel, Monkey Grip, in 1977. It was an immediate sensation. The novel follows a doomed love affair between the protagonist Nora and a heroin addict named Javo, amid the countercultural milieu of Melbourne’s inner north.
What sort of book then was Australia’s so-called ‘first feminist novel’ and how did Helen Garner come to write it? ‘Pure pleasure and happiness’ Monkey Grip was released by independent publishers McPhee Gribble.
- Zora Simic
Yet despite such resistance (or propaganda), along with similar efforts from others, Helen Garner has become one of Australia's celebrated writers, apparently destined for a permanent place in Australia's literary history. And along with Garner goes Monkey Grip. Her first novel grows in stature beside her.
- Kevin Brophy
- 1992
Apr 11, 2024 · Monkey Grip, a largely autobiographical novel distilled from Garner’s diaries—autofiction avant la lettre—is the story of a divorced young feminist writer, raising her daughter in a...
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.
