The Listening Zone

‘The Memory of Marble’ is a collection of ten stories that examine the boundaries we create between passion and obsession. The people in the stories seek refuge from emotions by cocooning themselves in the worlds of books, pianos, art, and fingerprints. A dying man imagines he can smell the history of graveside monuments, a fresco restorer battles madness as his diseased skin appears on the paintings he loves, and a blind book collector’s world collapses when he discovers an insect incubating on a page. They inhabit arcane worlds that explode with sensation and sensuality.

Read by the author: Carolyn Beasley grew up in the bayside suburb of Altona, Victoria and now lives in a coastal town with a fellow writer and Bob, the shaggy brown dog. Her short stories have won many awards and her work has been published in Australia and overseas. She teaches writing at Swinburne University.

Her passions include sitting in gardens and staring at the ocean.

Stories:

• Skin’s Rebellion
• Cocoon
• The Memory of Marble
• The Garden
• The Temperament
• Formaldehyde
• The Clock Collector
• The Violin
• The Fig
• A Fingerprinter Falls In Love