Past Forgetting My Memory Lost and Found
Past Forgetting My Memory Lost and Found by Jill Robinson is a reprint edition published by HarperCollins on November 14, 2000. This memoir chronicles the author’s journey following a coma that leaves her with no memory of her past or identity. As she navigates her new reality, Jill discovers the complexities of her relationships, including her husband, Stuart, and her grown children, while grappling with the question of how to reclaim a life she cannot fully remember.
In this engaging exploration, Jill Robinson delves into the connections between memory and creativity, as well as the interplay of loss and discovery. The narrative takes readers through her experiences, from tentative steps outside her home to significant encounters with notable figures, including Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. Through her quest for self-definition, Jill poses profound questions about the nature of memory and the possibility of reinvention, inviting readers to reflect on their own understanding of recollection and identity. This edition spans 288 pages and is presented in English.
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A love story, a mystery, and a memory guide, Past Forgetting shows a writer’s determination to re-create her life.Jill Robinson, novelist and author of Bed/Time/Story, wakes from a coma to discover she’s lost her memory and just about any sense of who she was.And is.
She likes the look of the man standing next to her bed, but doesn’t recognize that he’s her husband, Stuart. What matters is that she feels safe around him. As she searches the house for her children, she is reminded that her son and daughter are both grown with families of their own–how well did she ever know them? Can You make up for a past you don’t really remember?
It is Stuart who begins to fill in the details for Jill, including the fact that she’s a well-known writer, although when she meets with her doctors, they say she may never write again.
Against all odds, Jill Robinson retrieved her unique writing voice, and in this engaging memoir shows how she does it. She takes us with her on her exploration of’tlie connections between memory and creativity, celebrity and anonymity, and loss and discovery. From her first tentative steps outside her house on Wimpole Street to London’s sleek West End. From a trip to Oxford to discuss memory with a professor to her amazing voyage to Los Angeles on an assignment for Vanity fair which takes her back to the sixties world of Hockney, Polanski, and Hopper, Jill forges new paths to memory.
In Past Forgetting, Jill Robinson rediscovers friendships she doesn’t know she had: Robert Redford tells her stories about her childhood; at John Lahr’s London literary teas, she’s reintroduced to the writer’s world, and Cary Grant offers her memories of her father, Dore Schary. And being with Barbra Streisand reminds her of a time she doesn’t quite remember: when her father was running MGM.
In her urgent voyage to redefine herself, Jill asks all the questions you’ve ever asked on the nature of memory. Is recollection shadowed by emotion? Is memory an act of reinvention? Do people reinvent rather than recollect? In Past Forgetting you’ll find the answers and you’ll meet a writer you won’t want to forget.
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