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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Outrun: A Memoir (originale 2016; edizione 2018)di Amy Liptrot (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Very compelling memoir. Liptrot grew up on Orkney, came down to London where her life was overtaken by her alcoholism, and then eventually recovered her sobriety back up in Orkney. There is a clear-headed detachment to her writing, and she seems very self-aware (without being too solipsistic), which is an enjoyable quality. The descriptions of Orkney — even bleak and isolated as they are — make me long to see the islands. Some of the tales of her existence in London are less compelling than her descriptions of her home, though at the same time I remember feeling like she was holding some stuff back. Overall, though, the balance between the purgatory/redemption in the book is pretty good. Fascinating, brave, clear-headed writing. ( ) This is about the author's alcoholism. She's from Orkney and returns there for a year when she's in her 30s or thereabouts and her life has been destroyed by alcohol. Orkney, off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland, is small and isolated to begin with, and she spends a winter on one island that is particularly small and isolated, living alone in a cottage. This is the part of the book that most appealed to me, having Hermit Envy. The descriptions of Orkney only made sense to me because I've seen Iceland. This book grew on me slowly. It is told as a monologue & I missed conversations/interactions. Amy kept mentioning friends, but we never got to hear them, and even the boyfriend she lived with for two years wasn’t given a name. So this disturbed me, then it gradually became clear that the blurry, dream-like fog she lives in in London is because of her out-of-control drinking. The story moves between London and her childhood & return to the Orkneys. For a time I felt these were two different stories uncomfortably stitched together. I wasn’t aware at first this was a memoir, but it felt so painfully true: her loneliness, isolation, odd preoccupations, that I ended up googling her & seeing a talk she gave on YouTube, and yes, this was her life. “I seek sensation, balance seems pale” she explains. It has given me an insight into a life where being trashed becomes all-important so that everything else gets lost, and it’s also begun for me a fascination with the Orkneys, such a harsh, remote and beautiful place, that I have never thought about before. A place where the winds can get so violent that tethered cows can become balloons. A place I can now explore without the tough elements with Google! Such a haunting, authentic read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey. Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth and death on the farm, and her father's mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London. Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings - and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction. The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island and city, and about the ability of the sea, the land, the wind and the moon to restore life and renew hope. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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