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'The past feeds into the present and often undermines it in this story about marriage, memory and mistakes that can never be forgiven. It features Nina, a memorial consultant and her futurologist husband Daniel: her sister Zoe, a music teacher and Zoe's biographer husband, American ex-alcoholic Elliot. And lastly, there is Ramsay Blake, a genius at the piano but a half-baked human being in every other respect.
All the relationships are on shaky ground. As for memory and forgiveness are less reliable than what we would like to think.' (Source: Author's website: http://andreagoldsmith.com.au/the-memory-trap/ )
Notes
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Dedication: for Jacqueline Eve Goldsmith
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Epigraph:
'Darkly rises each moment from life
which has been lived and which does not die,
for each event lives in the heavy head forever,
waiting to renew itself.
-Delmore Schwartz
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Memory, Marriage, and Music : An Interview with Andrea Goldsmith
Nigel Featherstone
(interviewer),
2013
single work
interview
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2013; -
Andrea Goldsmith on Memory
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Cairo, Melbourne (Two Novels: One beautiful, One an Instant Classic)
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Crikey , September 2013;
— Review of Cairo 2013 single work novel ; The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel 'Jim Morgan is entertained by two fine new novels set in Melbourne: ‘The Memory Trap’ and ‘Cairo’, and wonders if “a man’s worth is measured by his ability to stake a fence.”' -
A Collection of Recollections
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 July 2013; (p. 27) The Age , 27 July 2013; The Canberra Times , 27 July 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Andrea Goldsmith : The Memory Trap
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2013;
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel
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Andrea Goldsmith on Memory
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Tricks of the Mind
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25-26 May 2013; (p. 19)
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Insights Come with a Punch
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 June 2013; (p. 22-23)
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 June 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of My Beautiful Enemy 2013 single work novel ; The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
Andrea Goldsmith : The Memory Trap
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2013;
— Review of The Memory Trap 2013 single work novel -
World of Words
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23) Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013. -
Unaviodable Memories
2013
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Age , 1 June 2013; (p. 28) -
Andrea Goldsmith
2013
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 June 2013; (p. 30-31) The Canberra Times , 8 June 2013; (p. 19) 'In her latest novel, the author explores the extraordinary power memories have on our imagination, writes Jason Steger.' -
Memory, Marriage, and Music : An Interview with Andrea Goldsmith
Nigel Featherstone
(interviewer),
2013
single work
interview
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2013;
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