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form y separately published work icon Monkey Grip single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Monkey Grip Helen Garner , 1977 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Monkey Grip
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
form y separately published work icon Monkey Grip Ken Cameron , Helen Garner , ( dir. Ken Cameron ) 1982 Australia : Pavilion Films , 1981 Z820614 1982 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

Set in inner Melbourne over two summers, Monkey Grip is a frank portrayal of a divorced mother who is attempting to cope with both her thirteen-year-old daughter and her own relationship with a drug addict, while also trying to get into the music business. As she battles to regain control of her life, we meet an array of talented and reckless musicians, actors, and writers, all of whom play a part in her world and most of whom refuse to live by society's rules.

Australian Literature: Fiction into Film University of Western Australia 2010 (Semester 1)
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