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'Molly, a sassy Australian waitress, is haunted by the ghost of a murdered Polish Jew. The two young women's stories, each a compelling page-turner, combine teasingly in one as End of the Night Girl explores shadows cast by the Holocaust across decades, continents and cultures.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: To my parents, Barry and Susan Matthews, with love.
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Works about this Work
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True or False? The Role of Ethics in Book Reviewing
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 60 2016; 'Can, or should, literary criticism ever be entirely free of ethical judgement? And what does it mean to talk about the place of ethics in criticism? As a literary scholar with an interest in a wide range of fiction in English, and a book reviewer, I am implicitly confronted with these questions whenever I set out to write about literature in either essay or review form. Although the book review and the literary essay are different types of endeavour in many ways, this problem is common to both.' (Introduction) -
'A Dozy City' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the Night Girl
2014
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— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 253-266) -
Laura Joseph on Amy T Matthews, End of the Night Girl
2012
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review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 72 no. 1 2012;
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Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 6 no. 3 2012;
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Untitled
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 343 2012; (p. 46)
— Review of End of the Night Girl 2007 single work novel
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Cover Notes
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 10 July 2011; (p. 25)
— Review of End of the Night Girl 2007 single work novel -
Well Read
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 July 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of End of the Night Girl 2007 single work novel ; The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Where the Wild Fears Are
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 August 2011; (p. 22)
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On Alienation and Murder, Accidental and Otherwise
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 August 2011; (p. 22)
— Review of End of the Night Girl 2007 single work novel ; I Am Max Lamm 2011 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 24 September 2011; (p. 32)
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Navigating the Kingdom of Night: Writing the Holocaust
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: End of the Night Girl : A Novel 2007; (p. v. 2) 'Critics, historians and Holocaust survivors have argued for decades over whether the Holocaust should be accessible to fiction and, if so, who has the right to write those fictions. "Navigating the Kingdom of Night" addresses such concerns and analyses various literary strategies adopted by authors of Holocaust fiction, including the non-realist narrative techniques used by authors such as Yaffa Eliach, Jonathan Safran Foer and John Boyne and the self-reflexivity of Art Spiegelman. Through the course of the essay I contextualise "End of the Night Girl" by turning my attention to works that raise critical issues of authorial intent and the reader/writer contract; for example Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird and Helen Darville's The Hand That Signed the Paper. How did I resolve my own concerns? Which texts helped me and why? Together "End of the Night Girl" and "Navigating the Kingdom of Night", one creatively and one critically, explore these complex and controversial questions in a contemporary Australian context.' (Trove record) -
First Person
2011
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interview
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 2 July 2011; (p. 9) -
Dark Night
Gillian Dooley
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , September no. 379 2011; (p. 36) -
Walking on Graves : An Interview with Amy T. Matthews
Gillian Dooley
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 4 no. 1 2011; 'Amy T. Matthews won the 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript for End of the Night Girl (Wakefield Press, 2011), a novel about an Adelaide waitress haunted by the Holocaust. Transnational Literature editor Gillian Dooley spoke to her about the challenges of writing on this immense, vexed subject.' (Introduction)
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Women of Words
2012
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column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 20 May 2012; (p. 19)
Awards
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- Adelaide, South Australia,
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Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Occupied Poland (1939-1945),
cPoland,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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