Sea state
Lasley, Tabitha2021
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In her mid-30s and sprung out of a terrible relationship, Tabitha quit her job at a women's magazine, left London and put her savings into a six-month lease on a flat in a dodgy neighbourhood in Aberdeen - she was going to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? 'I wanted to see what men were like, with no women around'. 'Sea State' is, on the one hand, a portrait of an overlooked industry, and a fascinating subculture in its own right: 'offshore' is a way of life for generations of British workers, primarily working class men. Offshore is also a potent metaphor for a lot of things we might rather keep at bay - class, masculinity, the North-South divide, the transactional nature of desire, the terrible slipperiness of the ladder that could lead us towards (or away from) real security, just out of reach.
Main title:
Sea state / Tabitha Lasley.
Author:
Lasley, Tabitha, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2021.
Collation:
225 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008390938 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
622.33819LAS941.23 LASL941.2309 LAS
Language:
English
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BRN:
1292948
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