And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change. Hedonism doesn’t quite cover this novel’s themes or setting. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner 5,121 ratings, 3.72 average rating, 369 reviews Monkey Grip Quotes Showing 1-8 of 8 It was early summer. Some very graphic images and a less than safe lifestyle. This life may be unsavoury to many but it is full of raw grit. Flat sharing is common to many people now and the trails and tribulations of this is magnified here.īeing set in the 1970s there are some details which will make you smile – do banks still have bankbooks for example? Despite the drugs and drink and sexual favours, the overall sense is one of a simple way of life when everything was played on a 78 instead of an ipod (now that is really digging up the nostalgia!) Melbourne comes across vividly if not in a particularly good light – but then this is a different time and a particular section of society who live life one day at a time, one hit at a time and don’t think of a future instead living in the present. This is a particular kind of suburb – one full of hippies and nomads who live in a share all environment – living arrangements, sex, drugs, drink and anything else they care to. Inner city life in a Melbourne suburb in the 1970s?
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