{"product_id":"9781399606783-monkey-grip","title":"Monkey Grip","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sun-soaked modern classic from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Languid, beautiful' \u003ci\u003eANOTHER MAGAZINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1970s Melbourne, Nora is a happy woman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is happy moving between the city's communal households, with her little daughter. Happy with days spent at the public pool, and nights spent dancing and drinking and talking and smoking and loving freely. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then Nora meets Javo. Javo, with his crooked, wrecked, wild face and his violently blue eyes. And soon she is trapped in the monkey grip of his drug addiction and her own obsessive love for him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn its first publication in 1977, \u003ci\u003eMonkey Grip\u003c\/i\u003e was both a sensation and a lightning rod due to its frank portrayal of the lives of Garner's generation. Now a modern classic, it introduces us to Helen Garner's dazzling and radical literary voice.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential with an introduction by Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41119852068961,"sku":"9781399606783","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28626631.jpg?v=1722759383","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399606783-monkey-grip","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}