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Lasley, Tabitha.
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Lasley, Tabitha.
Lasley, Tabitha -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland -- Aberdeen.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Offshore oil industry -- North Sea -- Employees.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Sexual behavior.
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Lasley, Tabitha.
Lasley, Tabitha.
Lasley, Tabitha -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland -- Aberdeen.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Offshore oil industry -- North Sea -- Employees.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Sexual behavior.
MARC Display
Sea
state
: a
memoir
/ Tabitha Lasley.
by
Lasley, Tabitha.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Call #:
070.4088 L345s
Subjects
Lasley, Tabitha.
Lasley, Tabitha -- Homes and haunts -- Scotland -- Aberdeen.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Offshore oil industry -- North
Sea
-- Employees.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Oil industry workers -- Great Britain -- Sexual behavior.
ISBN:
9780063030831 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 220 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published as
Sea
State
in the United Kingdom in 2021 by 4th Estate"--T. p. verso.
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"--From publisher.
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Nonfiction novels.
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