Stargazing
Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
A generous book ... as full of lost dreams as a starry sky on a foggy night Daily TelegraphIt is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, the Watergate trial and Coronation Street, is about to spend six months on various remote Scottish lighthouses, keeping with all manner of unusual and fascinating people.This charming and beautifully written account of that time is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.Poetic and evocative ... What makes Stargazing such a beautiful book is that it is more than an elegy to a vanished profession. I…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84195-499-8
- EAN: 9781841954998
- Produktnummer: 17613961
- Verlag: Canongate
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 245 g
- Gewicht: 245
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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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