Aware of the risks, caring & keeping distance, indulging feelings & ruthlessly detaching, attempting to outwit their own humanity.

Sharp, shameless, observations, shocking at the time, truth-telling, that caused an uproar, now a #classic Antipodean text of its era.

#HelenGarner Monkey Grip

In free spirited 60s, when all was permissible, many experimented with drugs, throwing off shackles of parental authority, responsibility, fidelity.

Through Nora, we observe them, living in and out of each other's digs, hooking up, a hunger to feel met thru sex & drugs.

Monkey Grip #HelenGarner
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Helen Garner o najgorszych trzech tygodniach życia

https://news.uluru.space/article/27530?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=auto #Literatura #Opera #HelenGarner

Hilary McPhee: Literary pioneer who launched Helen Garner and published Cloudstreet

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#australianliterature #publishing #helengarner

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