ISBN: 9780063030831
Editorial: Ecco
Autor: Lasley, Tabitha
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 240
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of December 2021: Tabitha Lasley had always been curious about oil rigs and the men that are held captive by them for months at a time doing back-breaking, dangerous work. Specifically, she wondered what men are like when women aren’t around. So, she packed her bags for Aberdeen, Scotland, immersing herself in a culture that is dominated by the swarthy, rough, and explosive world of oil riggers. Surprisingly, she doesn’t just observe the men, she quickly finds herself in a whirlwind romance with one of the them. In this bold and unexpected memoir, Lasley navigates not only her broader curiosity but a more personal one, delivering a powerful experience of the sea, sex, and desire. —Al Woodworth, Amazon EditorProduct DescriptionA Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit HubA stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisisIn 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 men—and 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 bay—class, 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.Review“Lasley is a gifted interlocutor.... The book’s hybrid of ethnography, journalism and disclosure might have been disastrous in the hands of someone without Lasley’s candor and style. Instead, “Sea State” accomplishes what many memoirs do not: It organizes a messy life with a clear vision.” — New York Times Book Review“A singular and refreshingly candid travel memoir.” — Los Angeles Times“A peculiar and entrancing blend of memoir and reportage…. Smart about sexual desire and the ease of analyzing — but the difficulty of escaping — familiar gender roles, Sea State offers a close up view of the white, working-class resentments that helped fuel both Brexit and the Trump presidency.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Lasley’s memoir is at its best…a validation of failure, no matter how self-inflicted, as a story in its own right—one that can be told just as well as any other.” — The Nation“A sharp take on masculinity, class and the intoxicating danger of attraction.” — People"The hybrid work of memoir and unconventional journalism chronicles Lasley’s doomed romance with Caden alongside a consideration of the dangers of a life of oil extraction. Along the way, she learns not to trust her assumptions about men like Caden, places like Aberdeen, and women like herself." — The Atlantic“Sea State is so many things at once: an exploration of class, masculinity, desire, and the ways in which the work we do defines us. But alongside th
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