Description

• Monkey Grip is the first novel by acclaimed Australian author Helen Garner [1942-]
• Winner of the National Book Council Award
• First published in Australia [McPhee Gribble, 1977; Penguin paperback, 1978] then the UK [Virago, 1980], with all first editions scarce & keenly sought
• Jacket painting by Thomas B. Allen
• First Thus [Seaview Books, New York, 1981]; [vi], 245, [3 blank] pages; green paper over blue cloth, gold titling to spine, light sunning to top edge, deckled fore-edge, a near-fine copy; in the excellent illustrated dustjacket; ISBN: 0-87223-677-3 / 0872236773

Helen Garner’s prose is masterfully laconic, her style mesmerizing – blurb