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Sea state : a memoir / Tabitha Lasley.

Lasley, Tabitha, (author.).

Summary:
"A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In 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, competition, and the deepest friendships imaginable. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063030831
  • ISBN: 0063030837
  • Physical Description: xiv, 220 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published as Sea State in the United Kingdom in 2021 by 4th Estate"--Title page verso.
Subject: Lasley, Tabitha.
Journalists > Great Britain > Biography.
Oil industry workers > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Oil industry workers > Sexual behavior > Great Britain.
Oil well drilling rigs > Great Britain.
Men > Great Britain > Identity.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 6 of 7 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library 92 LASLEY (Text) 50687011758342 Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/08/2024
Albright Memorial Library 92 LASLEY (Text) 50686016122934 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 331.7622 LAS (Text) 33240004942168 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Highland Community Library 331.7 LAS (Text) 35610000987409 HGHM Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library B LASLEY LAS (Text) 34422007234384 Adult Biography Available -
Allentown Public Library 331.7 LASL (Text) 34455006853796 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library B LASLEY (Text) 33062009535841 Adult Biography Available -


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