Tabitha Lasley

Sea State (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit Hub

A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis

In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around.

In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the menand her.

Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: offshore is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bayclass, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security.

Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063030855
• Artikelnr.: 61294937

Autorenporträt

Tabitha Lasley was a journalist for ten years. She has lived in London, Johannesburg, and Aberdeen. This is her first book.

Rezensionen

'A breathtaking memoir ... The prose is stunning: gimlet-eyed and brutal' Tomiwa Owolade, Sunday Times, Books of the Year

'Contemporary writing at its finest, without any hint of effort, egoism or pretentiousness on Lasley's part. She is an astoundingly good writer, and this is an astoundingly good book' Irish Times

'These are powerful and moving stories of working lives in a dangerous and all-male environment, made all the more powerful by the way Lasley refuses to absent herself from the telling. The writing is carefully and unobtrusively polished, with hard edges and unflinching clarity ... Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13

'It's extraordinary. It takes you places so few books do ... it gets inside the heads that are mostly ignored by publishing' Observer

'A startlingly original study of love, masculinity and the cost of a profession that few outside of it can truly understand' Guardian

'She has the skill, a Joan Didion kind of skill, of inflecting non-fiction material subjectively, a habit of assessing situations via her nervous system ... Sea State has all the presentness of fiction, as well as the exactitude of the non-fiction novel and the gleam of confession' Andrew O'Hagan, author of Mayflies, LRB

'Acidic, addictive reporting with a fictional veneer. Sea State's writing alone is worth the admission price' Financial Times

'A powerful blend of journalism and memoir ... Beautifully written, disquieting, it reminds me of Lisa Taddeo's Three Women' David Nicholls, author of Sweet Sorrow

'Piercing, brutally candid, addictive. A memoir like no other ... If you were gripped by Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, this is for you' Rachel Cooke, author of Her Brilliant Career

'Incredibly compelling' Sarah Hall, author of Burntcoat