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'My Memory has a Mind of Its Own' : Watching the Climbers on the Mountain and The Tivington Nott
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'My Memory has a Mind of Its Own' : Watching the Climbers on the Mountain and The Tivington Nott
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'Not long ago, Alex Miller remarked at a literary event (my witness is a bookseller from Launceston) that 'My memory has a mind of its own'. What might this mean? Perhaps a memory that is truant, given to reinvention, but also set free. Another implication might concern the double insecurity of memory: the tenuousness of our hold on what we can recollect from the past, and the uncertain hold that memory gives us on our present. In any event, that remark by Miller began and then informs this discussion of the first two novels that he wrote, works that draw closely on some salient events of his youth. They are Watching the Climbers on the Mountain (1988) and The Tivington Nott (1989)...' (From author's introduction 55)
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'My Memory has a Mind of Its Own' : Watching the Climbers on the Mountain and The Tivington Nott
Subjects:
- Watching the Climbers on the Mountain 1988 single work novel
- The Tivington Nott 1989 single work novel
- The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature 1985 reference criticism biography
- Lovesong 2009 single work novel
- Journey to the Stone Country 2002 single work novel
- Conditions of Faith 2000 single work novel
- Journey into the Heart of a Massacre 2008 single work column
- The Solitariness of Alex Miller 2004 single work criticism
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