Outrun (eBook)

Amy Liptrot (Autor)

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2015 | Main
320 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-549-6 (ISBN)

Infos

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONANWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHORTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE AND THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEAfter spending her twenties in London, Amy Liptrot returns to her home in Orkney where she comes to terms with the addiction that has consumed the past decade of her life. On the remote island, Amy spends her mornings swimming in the cold sea, her days observing wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for any signs of the Northern Lights. She soon discovers how the natural world can restore life, heal old wounds and renew hope.

Autor

Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of which The Outrun has emerged. As well as writing for local newspaper, Orkney Today, and editing the Edinburgh Student newspaper, Amy has worked as an artist's model, a trampolinist and in a shellfish factory. The Outrun was awarded the 2016 Wainwright Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Prize.

Rezensionen

Beautiful, stark and unflinching. Amy Liptrot is an extraordinary new voice

An astoundingly honest, uplifting tale of recovery from addiction. Bold and unflinching, with the journey north the reader is taken by the hand through an excoriating process of healing, linked as it is to a return to this wind-scoured Northland. The gentle increase in attention to wild nature in all its aspects of death and renewal illuminates and purges the soul. This is a book with a core of fire and ice that manages to be both rough and tender with the self and finally says: change your life

The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside Richard Mabey's Nature Cure and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk - the sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun may even be a future classic. Wherever she journeys next, you will want to go with her

Amy Liptrot has lived her life on the edge of things, both literally and metaphorically. Her beautiful first book gives a wonderfully evocative account of both, blending searing memoir with sublime nature writing, and coming up with a unique piece of prose that amounts to a stirring personal philosophy of how to live. Her descriptive writing of the [Orkney] islands and their wildlife absolutely sizzles, a scintillating mix of clear-eyed insight and poetic heart. She ties in elements of myth and fantasy, some of the islands' remarkable history, and her own visceral experience to create something as compelling as any thriller. Amy Liptrot is the real deal, a writer whose voice seems fully formed on the page, and I can't wait to read what she writes next

Honest, brilliant and exhilarating'

Brilliant . . . one of the most scabrously honest, sassy and moving books about addiction and recovery that I have read

There is a great deal of frank, flinch-making writing in this book, but it is always balanced by a sublimity and graciousness that is rare. This is a bold-hearted and brave-minded book. It is both terribly sad and awfully affecting. I look forward to its presence on some prize lists

Clean, clear and impressive . . . a sensuous book, full of summer nights and winter water. Liptrot swims, walks, lives alone on uninhabited islands and observes. And from that comes a portrait of the natural world she is absorbed into

The Outrun is an astonishingly beautiful book. Amy makes most nature writing seem flat and pedestrian. Her account of her addiction and recovery is electric, sexy, immediate and raw, leaving the reader reeling in her wake . . . This is a luminous, life-affirming book, and I have no doubt that I'll be pressing it into people's hands for years to come

An uncompromising account of addiction and recovery played out against the blasted fields of Orkney. Liptrot's writing is strong and sure. The Outrun is a bright addition to the exploding genre of writing about place and our place in the natural world -

This book sang to me. I loved it. It is beautiful, badass, meticulous and moving. Never evangelical or mawkish, it is by turns heart-breaking and edifying. A tale of adventure and personal evolution, it is the story of a woman finding her own painful edges, and then finding the grit, and guts, and vision to bring herself back - to the edges of a Scottish island - to recover, and to process her experiences through words. It's a book you will read, and re-read, and re-read

A lyrical, brave memoir. It's Liptrot's aptitude for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer . . . I enjoyed this book enormously

A painfully honest look in a broken mirror, this memoir is intensely unsettling but also deeply peaceful

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Zusatzinfo: Two b/w maps illustrations
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE WINNER • addiction memoir • Alcohol • alcoholism • Alex Pheby • Amanda Owen • Atul Gawande • Augustown • Barney Norris • Being Mortal • Birdwatching • Cathy Rentzenbrink • Cheryl Strayed • chris packham • Common Ground • do no harm • Drinking a Love Story • esther woolfson • Female-lead • fingers in the sparkle jar • Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain • Francis Spufford • Golden Hill • Grief is the Thing with Feathers • Helen Macdonald • Henry Marsh • H is for Hawk • In a Land of Paper Gods • It's All In Your Head • James Macdonald Lockhart • James Rebanks • John Lewis-Stempel • Katharine Norbury • Kathleen Jamie • Kei Miiller • landmarks • malachy • Malachy Tallack • Mark Cocker • Matt Haig • Max Porter • Meadowland • Melissa Harrison • Merry Dancers • Michael McCarthy • Mountains of the Mind • Nature Cure • Nature writing • Neurotribes • Nora Fingscheidt • northern lights • Olivia Laing • Ondaatje Prize • Ondaatje shortlist • Orcadian mythology • Orkney • Paapa Essiedu • Patrick Barkham • Playthings • Radio 4 Book of the Week • Raptor • Raptor Lockhart • reasons to stay alive • Rebecca MacKenzie • rebecca solnit • Recovery • recovery from alcoholism • recovery memoir • Richard Mabey • Rob Cowen • Robert Macfarlane • roger deakin • Rose Tremain • Saoirse Ronan • Sarah Moss • Sara Maitland • Signs for lost children • Steve Silberman • Studiocanal • Sundance • Suzanne o'sullivan • Tallack • The Examined Life • The Fish Ladder • The Goshawk • The Gustav Sonata • The Invention of Nature • the last act of love • The Moth Snowstorm • The Old Ways • The Running Hare • The Shepherd's Life • TH White • tim dee • Wainwright Prize • Wainwright prizewinner • Waterlog • Wellcome prize • wild places • wild swimming • Yorkshire Shepherdess
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-549-8 / 1782115498
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-549-6 / 9781782115496