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Peter Hill - Stargazing, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Stargazing

Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper

Av Peter Hill

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Beskrivning
When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Hill was nineteen, it was 1973 and, with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, he spent six months on various lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. Within thirty years this way of life was to have disappeared entirely. The resulting book is a charming and beautifully written memoir that is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2004-05-31
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 226 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Canongate Books
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781841954998
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Peter Hill was born to an Australian mother and Scottish father and grew up in Glasgow. Following a brief stint as a lighthouse keeper, he did a number of jobs but for the past twenty years he has focused most of his energy into his art and working as an art critic. He has written for many publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, London Review of Books, Artpresse and Interview and in 1986 founded the arts magazine Alba. He currently lives in Sydney.

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What makes Stargazing such a beautiful book is that it is more than an elegy to a vanished profession. It is a elegy to youth and to the constellation of dreams, ambitions and anxieties that is more intense at 19 than it can ever be again.

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