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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Dreams They Forgot
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'Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge before it's finished. An isolated family tries to weather climate change as the Doomsday Clock ticks.

'Emma Ashmere's stories explore illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion. Diverse characters travel high and low roads through time and place - from a grand 1860s Adelaide music hall to a dilapidated London squat, from a modern Melbourne hospital to the 1950s Maralinga test site, to the 1990s diamond mines of Borneo.

'Undercut with longing and unbelonging, absurdity and tragedy, thwarted plans and fortuitous serendipity, each story offers glimpses into the dreams, limitations, gains and losses of fragmented families, loners and lovers, survivors and misfits, as they piece together a place for themselves in the imperfect mosaic of the natural and unnatural world.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication : 'For Delma'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,:Wakefield Press , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Winter Months, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 1-16)
Nightfall, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 17-31)
Warhead, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 32-41)
Standing up Lying Down, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 42-54)
The Long Life of Milk, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 55-67)
The Second Wave, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 68-81)
The Historic Present, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 82-83)
The Ends of the Earth, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 84-96)
After the Storm, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 97-98)
Portrait or Landscape, Emma Ashmere , single work prose (p. 99-113)
Caving, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 114-122)
Silent Partner, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 123-127)
Polar Bears in Sydney Harbour, Emma Hopton , single work short story (p. 128-136)
Red Sea, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 137-141)
Seaworthiness, Emma Ashmere , single work (p. 142-152)
The Sketchers, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 153-157)
Trick of the Eye, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 158-171)
The Violin, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 172-181)
The Relaxing Jar, Emma Hopton , single work short story (p. 182-195)
Lush Life, Emma Ashmere , single work short story (p. 196-198)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 239p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1st September 2020
      ISBN: 9781743057063

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Works about this Work

Ripple Effects : Pinpoints of Life Experience Rose Lucas , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 35)

— Review of Dreams They Forgot Emma Ashmere , 2020 selected work short story

'A short story collection can have much in common with a collection of poetry, where each story pivots on attention to something particular and arresting – an image, a memory, the encounters with strangeness or beauty that can occur in a life. Individual stories build delicately towards such a moment, then fall away quickly, willing a reader to engage with feeling and suggestion rather than the comprehensiveness of narrative.' (Introduction)

Emma Ashmere, Dreams They Forgot Elizabeth Flux , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 September 2020;

— Review of Dreams They Forgot Emma Ashmere , 2020 selected work short story
Emma Ashmere, Dreams They Forgot Elizabeth Flux , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 September 2020;

— Review of Dreams They Forgot Emma Ashmere , 2020 selected work short story
Ripple Effects : Pinpoints of Life Experience Rose Lucas , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 35)

— Review of Dreams They Forgot Emma Ashmere , 2020 selected work short story

'A short story collection can have much in common with a collection of poetry, where each story pivots on attention to something particular and arresting – an image, a memory, the encounters with strangeness or beauty that can occur in a life. Individual stories build delicately towards such a moment, then fall away quickly, willing a reader to engage with feeling and suggestion rather than the comprehensiveness of narrative.' (Introduction)

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