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Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
Taschenbuch von Peter Hill
Sprache: Englisch

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"A generous book ... as full of lost dreams as a starry sky on a foggy night" Daily Telegraph

It 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. It is an elegy to youth and to the constellation of dreams, ambitions and anxieties that is more intense at 19 than it can ever be again" Sunday Herald

"A gentle comedy of manners, which pitches the green-around-the-gills Hill - an adolescent idealist - into the intrinsically no- nonsense, manly world of the lighthouse" Independent

As read on bbc radio 4

Cover photograph: Courtesy of Photonica
Cover design: Ghost

"A generous book ... as full of lost dreams as a starry sky on a foggy night" Daily Telegraph

It 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. It is an elegy to youth and to the constellation of dreams, ambitions and anxieties that is more intense at 19 than it can ever be again" Sunday Herald

"A gentle comedy of manners, which pitches the green-around-the-gills Hill - an adolescent idealist - into the intrinsically no- nonsense, manly world of the lighthouse" Independent

As read on bbc radio 4

Cover photograph: Courtesy of Photonica
Cover design: Ghost

Über den Autor
Peter Hill
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781841954998
ISBN-10: 1841954993
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hill, Peter
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Canongate Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Hill
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,275 kg
Artikel-ID: 102485740
Über den Autor
Peter Hill
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781841954998
ISBN-10: 1841954993
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hill, Peter
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Canongate Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Hill
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,275 kg
Artikel-ID: 102485740
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