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Booktube Recommends Project | Monkey Grip
Hello Everybody! My name is Tanya and here is a rambly video about my experience reading Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, my January pick for the Booktube Recommends Project.
Also this is the 50th video that has been uploaded to this channel! That's crazy!
This book was recommended to me by Sophie @ Sophie The Uneducated Reader: https://www.youtube.com/user/sophieaylmorebooks
Sophie's Reading Diversely Tag where she talks about Monkey Grip: http://youtu.be/KfElgK0gvP8
This project was started by Rachel @ TheShadesofOrange: http://youtu.be/QCcfZnqxikc
See what else I will be reading for this project here:
2015 Reading Goals | Booktube Recommends Project: http://youtu.be/30rthg4MvgM
Find me here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ListObsessed
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ListObsessed
published: 07 Feb 2015
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Monkey Grip by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
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Monkey Grip
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 ACQUA PROFONDA
15:03 Outro
#helengarner #monkeygrip
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner’s gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece – the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian liter...
published: 19 Feb 2024
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Helen Garner on Monkey Grip's Diaristic Birth
Watch the full video, and hundreds more: http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/nonfictionow-melbourne-2012-an-evening-with-helen-garner/
"I still keep a diary, and I have done since I was a teenager -- but I burnt it up to about the year 1980." Helen Garner talks about the roots of her landmark work, Monkey Grip -- and its humble beginnings as a private journal.
published: 26 Aug 2013
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Australian Literature 101: Helen Garner: Monkey Grip
In our series of lectures and discussions on the classics of Australian literature, Ramona Koval and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy bring Helen Garner’s classic book (later a successful film), Monkey Grip, under their spotlight.
published: 27 Jan 2015
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Book review of ‘’Monkey Grip” By Helen Garner #ubi #ubibookreview
Monkey Grip is Garner’s debut and is set in the period in which it was written, in mid-1970s Melbourne. I found it fascinating for that reason, as an insight into a young woman’s experience in that era, torn between feminist ideology and romantic love. It is moving, laconic, still fresh 45 years later, telling the story of a love affair between a single mother and a heroin addict. Despite mixed critical reception, it went on to win the National Book Council Award in 1978, coming to be recognized as ‘the voice of a generation,’ at a time when ‘serious’ Australian literature was almost exclusively male. In 2018, Monkey Grip was selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as number 47 of a list of “100 stories that shaped the world”—the only Australian novel on the list.
A real em...
published: 20 Aug 2021
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Book by Book: Helen Garner
Helen Garner is a literary institution in Australia, known for being "a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times) across both her novels and her nonfiction. Three of her books (MONKEY GRIP, THE CHILDREN'S BACH and THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF) were recently published in new editions. Start reading here: https://bit.ly/3QMIazU
About MONKEY GRIP
The 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
The 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...
published: 30 Nov 2023
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Writers on Writers: Sean O'Beirne on Helen Garner
Join us for a special evening event featuring one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, author Sean O’Beirne in conversation with author and screenwriter Christos Tsiolkas. Together they’ll celebrate and discuss the launch of Sean’s new book On Helen Garner.
On Helen Garner is the latest installment of the Writers on Writers series, in which leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.
Sean looks at Helen Garner’s writing life so far – from Monkey grip to the recently published Diaries – while trying to come to terms with the demands, and r...
published: 05 Apr 2022
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
0:44 A HAPPY STORY
4:52 POSTCARDS FROM SURFERS
15:03 Outro
#helengarner #storiesthecollectedshortfiction
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This audiobook brings Helen Garner’s short fiction together into one volume. Her most loved stories are here: Postcards from Surfers, My Har...
published: 15 Feb 2024
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published: 21 Nov 2018
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 1978
15:31 1979
15:45 Outro
#helengarner #yellownotebookdiariesvolumei19781987
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a ...
published: 11 Feb 2024
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Booktube Recommends Project | Monkey Grip
Hello Everybody! My name is Tanya and here is a rambly video about my experience reading Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, my January pick for the Booktube Recommend...
Hello Everybody! My name is Tanya and here is a rambly video about my experience reading Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, my January pick for the Booktube Recommends Project.
Also this is the 50th video that has been uploaded to this channel! That's crazy!
This book was recommended to me by Sophie @ Sophie The Uneducated Reader: https://www.youtube.com/user/sophieaylmorebooks
Sophie's Reading Diversely Tag where she talks about Monkey Grip: http://youtu.be/KfElgK0gvP8
This project was started by Rachel @ TheShadesofOrange: http://youtu.be/QCcfZnqxikc
See what else I will be reading for this project here:
2015 Reading Goals | Booktube Recommends Project: http://youtu.be/30rthg4MvgM
Find me here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ListObsessed
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ListObsessed
https://wn.com/Booktube_Recommends_Project_|_Monkey_Grip
Hello Everybody! My name is Tanya and here is a rambly video about my experience reading Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, my January pick for the Booktube Recommends Project.
Also this is the 50th video that has been uploaded to this channel! That's crazy!
This book was recommended to me by Sophie @ Sophie The Uneducated Reader: https://www.youtube.com/user/sophieaylmorebooks
Sophie's Reading Diversely Tag where she talks about Monkey Grip: http://youtu.be/KfElgK0gvP8
This project was started by Rachel @ TheShadesofOrange: http://youtu.be/QCcfZnqxikc
See what else I will be reading for this project here:
2015 Reading Goals | Booktube Recommends Project: http://youtu.be/30rthg4MvgM
Find me here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ListObsessed
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ListObsessed
- published: 07 Feb 2015
- views: 364
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Monkey Grip by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsbG0sEM
Monkey Grip
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 ACQUA PROFO...
PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsbG0sEM
Monkey Grip
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 ACQUA PROFONDA
15:03 Outro
#helengarner #monkeygrip
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Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner’s gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece – the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs and sex. When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction; and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora’s life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsbG0sEM
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: January 1, 2020
ISBN: 9780655641537
Duration: 8 hr, 10 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary
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PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsbG0sEM
Monkey Grip
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 ACQUA PROFONDA
15:03 Outro
#helengarner #monkeygrip
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GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS
Find your next great read with Google Play Books.
Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you.
Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios
Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner’s gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece – the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs and sex. When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his addiction; and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between his need for her and promises broken, Nora’s life becomes an intense dance of loving and trying to let go.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBsbG0sEM
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: January 1, 2020
ISBN: 9780655641537
Duration: 8 hr, 10 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary
- published: 19 Feb 2024
- views: 12
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Helen Garner on Monkey Grip's Diaristic Birth
Watch the full video, and hundreds more: http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/nonfictionow-melbourne-2012-an-evening-with-helen-garner/
"I still keep a diary,...
Watch the full video, and hundreds more: http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/nonfictionow-melbourne-2012-an-evening-with-helen-garner/
"I still keep a diary, and I have done since I was a teenager -- but I burnt it up to about the year 1980." Helen Garner talks about the roots of her landmark work, Monkey Grip -- and its humble beginnings as a private journal.
https://wn.com/Helen_Garner_On_Monkey_Grip's_Diaristic_Birth
Watch the full video, and hundreds more: http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/nonfictionow-melbourne-2012-an-evening-with-helen-garner/
"I still keep a diary, and I have done since I was a teenager -- but I burnt it up to about the year 1980." Helen Garner talks about the roots of her landmark work, Monkey Grip -- and its humble beginnings as a private journal.
- published: 26 Aug 2013
- views: 1083
56:13
Australian Literature 101: Helen Garner: Monkey Grip
In our series of lectures and discussions on the classics of Australian literature, Ramona Koval and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy bring Helen Garner’s classic book...
In our series of lectures and discussions on the classics of Australian literature, Ramona Koval and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy bring Helen Garner’s classic book (later a successful film), Monkey Grip, under their spotlight.
https://wn.com/Australian_Literature_101_Helen_Garner_Monkey_Grip
In our series of lectures and discussions on the classics of Australian literature, Ramona Koval and critic Kerryn Goldsworthy bring Helen Garner’s classic book (later a successful film), Monkey Grip, under their spotlight.
- published: 27 Jan 2015
- views: 4162
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Book review of ‘’Monkey Grip” By Helen Garner #ubi #ubibookreview
Monkey Grip is Garner’s debut and is set in the period in which it was written, in mid-1970s Melbourne. I found it fascinating for that reason, as an insight in...
Monkey Grip is Garner’s debut and is set in the period in which it was written, in mid-1970s Melbourne. I found it fascinating for that reason, as an insight into a young woman’s experience in that era, torn between feminist ideology and romantic love. It is moving, laconic, still fresh 45 years later, telling the story of a love affair between a single mother and a heroin addict. Despite mixed critical reception, it went on to win the National Book Council Award in 1978, coming to be recognized as ‘the voice of a generation,’ at a time when ‘serious’ Australian literature was almost exclusively male. In 2018, Monkey Grip was selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as number 47 of a list of “100 stories that shaped the world”—the only Australian novel on the list.
A real empath wrote this book. The crystal clear memory, and the nature of that attention, tell the story of one of the classic personality types that are often among the arts. It was written in 77. Despite becoming a rocker meme in 82, it also is interesting for capturing pre-tech western life. The pacing, the dropping by and comings and goings, the phone as an extension of place, not the person. Many adults today do not have a memory of that way. People who live by feeling this way are often misread, but her tolerance is a dialectic that favours love, and she affected me by literally wearing the shoes of others. Recommended because the I Ching was used to writing it, which turned out to be key to a brilliant moment in the author’s lucidity
Having just finished Monkey Grip, I am feeling suitably provincial. Garner’s 1970’s story is utterly urban and incredibly hipster – it would break the hearts of modern loose fringed copycats. People ride their bikes around from one inner-city Melbourne share house to another, swapping beds, children and needles, and rarely seem to go to work. There is no internet. You go to a bank to collect your dole money. The writing is rich and sensual, and the supporting characters are rain, sun, wind, heat, the feel of a dark backyard and that moment of falling into bed, exhausted and drunk. Drugs are central to everyone’s lives, whether they use them or not. Everyone hates the drugs, the users and the fallout, but no one will say so. The book’s rhythm is uncertain and moves with frequent ebb and flow, disaster and requiem, rather than the requisite “minor climax times two, followed d by a prolonged pause then major climax”. It’s like flipping between ABC and SBS late at night rather than watching a James Cameron film. People change their hair. Junkies steal things from their non-junkie lovers.
Garner does not introduce characters; they walk into the room, and she continues talking as if we’ve already met. They have names like Georgie, Paddy, Chris and Joss, and she often leaves their gender hanging for some time. Often you aren’t sure if they are children or adults. Edgy, perhaps, but for me, it’s a bit presumptuous. It means they don’t make an impression, and I have nothing to which to refer when they re-enter later. It also means I don’t care too much about them.
Nothing seems to work; no one ever quite gets there. Happiness found is always pending further grief. Best laid plans always fail, but poetically so and occasionally, someone learns something. If you can forgive and tolerate and be patient and not expect too much, it’s gratifying, which is the theme of the story, really
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Monkey Grip is Garner’s debut and is set in the period in which it was written, in mid-1970s Melbourne. I found it fascinating for that reason, as an insight into a young woman’s experience in that era, torn between feminist ideology and romantic love. It is moving, laconic, still fresh 45 years later, telling the story of a love affair between a single mother and a heroin addict. Despite mixed critical reception, it went on to win the National Book Council Award in 1978, coming to be recognized as ‘the voice of a generation,’ at a time when ‘serious’ Australian literature was almost exclusively male. In 2018, Monkey Grip was selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as number 47 of a list of “100 stories that shaped the world”—the only Australian novel on the list.
A real empath wrote this book. The crystal clear memory, and the nature of that attention, tell the story of one of the classic personality types that are often among the arts. It was written in 77. Despite becoming a rocker meme in 82, it also is interesting for capturing pre-tech western life. The pacing, the dropping by and comings and goings, the phone as an extension of place, not the person. Many adults today do not have a memory of that way. People who live by feeling this way are often misread, but her tolerance is a dialectic that favours love, and she affected me by literally wearing the shoes of others. Recommended because the I Ching was used to writing it, which turned out to be key to a brilliant moment in the author’s lucidity
Having just finished Monkey Grip, I am feeling suitably provincial. Garner’s 1970’s story is utterly urban and incredibly hipster – it would break the hearts of modern loose fringed copycats. People ride their bikes around from one inner-city Melbourne share house to another, swapping beds, children and needles, and rarely seem to go to work. There is no internet. You go to a bank to collect your dole money. The writing is rich and sensual, and the supporting characters are rain, sun, wind, heat, the feel of a dark backyard and that moment of falling into bed, exhausted and drunk. Drugs are central to everyone’s lives, whether they use them or not. Everyone hates the drugs, the users and the fallout, but no one will say so. The book’s rhythm is uncertain and moves with frequent ebb and flow, disaster and requiem, rather than the requisite “minor climax times two, followed d by a prolonged pause then major climax”. It’s like flipping between ABC and SBS late at night rather than watching a James Cameron film. People change their hair. Junkies steal things from their non-junkie lovers.
Garner does not introduce characters; they walk into the room, and she continues talking as if we’ve already met. They have names like Georgie, Paddy, Chris and Joss, and she often leaves their gender hanging for some time. Often you aren’t sure if they are children or adults. Edgy, perhaps, but for me, it’s a bit presumptuous. It means they don’t make an impression, and I have nothing to which to refer when they re-enter later. It also means I don’t care too much about them.
Nothing seems to work; no one ever quite gets there. Happiness found is always pending further grief. Best laid plans always fail, but poetically so and occasionally, someone learns something. If you can forgive and tolerate and be patient and not expect too much, it’s gratifying, which is the theme of the story, really
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- published: 20 Aug 2021
- views: 105
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Book by Book: Helen Garner
Helen Garner is a literary institution in Australia, known for being "a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times) across both her...
Helen Garner is a literary institution in Australia, known for being "a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times) across both her novels and her nonfiction. Three of her books (MONKEY GRIP, THE CHILDREN'S BACH and THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF) were recently published in new editions. Start reading here: https://bit.ly/3QMIazU
About MONKEY GRIP
The 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
The 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.
Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip 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.
When it first published in 1977, Monkey Grip was 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 Monkey Grip is considered a modern masterpiece.
A seminal novel of Australia’s turbulent 1970s and all it entailed—communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex—Monkey Grip now makes its long-overdue American debut.
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Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, and her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I’ll Remember This, and How to End a Story.
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Helen Garner is a literary institution in Australia, known for being "a master anatomist of ordinary people in difficult times" (New York Times) across both her novels and her nonfiction. Three of her books (MONKEY GRIP, THE CHILDREN'S BACH and THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF) were recently published in new editions. Start reading here: https://bit.ly/3QMIazU
About MONKEY GRIP
The 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
The 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.
Set in Australia in the late 1970s, Monkey Grip 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.
When it first published in 1977, Monkey Grip was 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 Monkey Grip is considered a modern masterpiece.
A seminal novel of Australia’s turbulent 1970s and all it entailed—communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex—Monkey Grip now makes its long-overdue American debut.
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Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, and her diaries Yellow Notebook, One Day I’ll Remember This, and How to End a Story.
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- published: 30 Nov 2023
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Writers on Writers: Sean O'Beirne on Helen Garner
Join us for a special evening event featuring one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, author Sean O’Beirne in conversation with author and screenwrit...
Join us for a special evening event featuring one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, author Sean O’Beirne in conversation with author and screenwriter Christos Tsiolkas. Together they’ll celebrate and discuss the launch of Sean’s new book On Helen Garner.
On Helen Garner is the latest installment of the Writers on Writers series, in which leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.
Sean looks at Helen Garner’s writing life so far – from Monkey grip to the recently published Diaries – while trying to come to terms with the demands, and rewards, of Garner’s great, radical individualism and honesty.
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Join us for a special evening event featuring one of Australia’s most exciting literary talents, author Sean O’Beirne in conversation with author and screenwriter Christos Tsiolkas. Together they’ll celebrate and discuss the launch of Sean’s new book On Helen Garner.
On Helen Garner is the latest installment of the Writers on Writers series, in which leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.
Sean looks at Helen Garner’s writing life so far – from Monkey grip to the recently published Diaries – while trying to come to terms with the demands, and rewards, of Garner’s great, radical individualism and honesty.
If you require a descriptive transcript for this video, please email us at
[email protected].
- published: 05 Apr 2022
- views: 890
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
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Narrated by Helen Garner
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0:44 A HAPPY STORY
4:52 POSTCARDS FROM SURFERS
15:03 Outro
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This audiobook brings Helen Garner’s short fiction together into one volume. Her most loved stories are here: Postcards from Surfers, My Hard Heart and A Happy Story. Garner’s focus is on love and longing, on the pain, darkness and joy of life, on the unexpected events, no matter how small, that transform us. Her mastery of the story is revealed in the sharpness of her observation, her honesty and humour, her ear for speech and the rhythm of her prose.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: November 1, 2019
ISBN: 9780655638070
Duration: 3 hr, 12 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
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Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
0:44 A HAPPY STORY
4:52 POSTCARDS FROM SURFERS
15:03 Outro
#helengarner #storiesthecollectedshortfiction
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This audiobook brings Helen Garner’s short fiction together into one volume. Her most loved stories are here: Postcards from Surfers, My Hard Heart and A Happy Story. Garner’s focus is on love and longing, on the pain, darkness and joy of life, on the unexpected events, no matter how small, that transform us. Her mastery of the story is revealed in the sharpness of her observation, her honesty and humour, her ear for speech and the rhythm of her prose.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: November 1, 2019
ISBN: 9780655638070
Duration: 3 hr, 12 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
- published: 15 Feb 2024
- views: 6
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Books to Read before 2019
Just a few titles on my immediate TBR that I want to have firmly placed on my read shelves by the time we are welcoming in 2019.
November TBR - https://www.you...
Just a few titles on my immediate TBR that I want to have firmly placed on my read shelves by the time we are welcoming in 2019.
November TBR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhRdehlxTc0
Cloak and Dagger Christmas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql9PTA21ygw&t=6s
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” - Anais Nin
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Strange Meeting – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39703393-strange-meeting
The Absolutist – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635076-the-absolutist
Bound for Temptation – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39881002-bound-for-temptation
The Obelisk Gate – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26228034-the-obelisk-gate
Gweilo – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719600.Gweilo
Love in a Fallen City – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189123.Love_in_a_Fallen_City
Monkey Grip – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634141.Monkey_Grip
The Children’s Bach – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634140.The_Children_s_Bach
Missing Joseph – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116687.Missing_Joseph
https://wn.com/Books_To_Read_Before_2019
Just a few titles on my immediate TBR that I want to have firmly placed on my read shelves by the time we are welcoming in 2019.
November TBR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhRdehlxTc0
Cloak and Dagger Christmas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql9PTA21ygw&t=6s
Be sure to use #cloakanddaggerchristmas on your social media posts.
The Novel Nomad on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_novel_nomad/
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” - Anais Nin
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:: ALL THE LINKS::
-Books Mentioned-
Strange Meeting – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39703393-strange-meeting
The Absolutist – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635076-the-absolutist
Bound for Temptation – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39881002-bound-for-temptation
The Obelisk Gate – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26228034-the-obelisk-gate
Gweilo – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719600.Gweilo
Love in a Fallen City – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189123.Love_in_a_Fallen_City
Monkey Grip – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634141.Monkey_Grip
The Children’s Bach – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634140.The_Children_s_Bach
Missing Joseph – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116687.Missing_Joseph
- published: 21 Nov 2018
- views: 587
16:06
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 by Helen Garner · Audiobook preview
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
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Narrated by Helen Gar...
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 1978
15:31 1979
15:45 Outro
#helengarner #yellownotebookdiariesvolumei19781987
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip. With their frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of everyday happenings provide an intimate insight into the life of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBcaGcoKM
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: January 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781867516613
Duration: 7 hr, 36 min
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / General, Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Art
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Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
Authored by Helen Garner
Narrated by Helen Garner
0:00 Intro
0:03 1978
15:31 1979
15:45 Outro
#helengarner #yellownotebookdiariesvolumei19781987
—
GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS
Find your next great read with Google Play Books.
Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you.
Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios
Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip. With their frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of everyday happenings provide an intimate insight into the life of one of Australia’s greatest writers.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEBcaGcoKM
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda
Published on: January 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781867516613
Duration: 7 hr, 36 min
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / General, Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Art
- published: 11 Feb 2024
- views: 7