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portada On Lighthouses
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Publisher
Year
2022
Language
English
Pages
174
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
17.8 x 11.4 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.18 kg.
ISBN13
9781949641349
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On Lighthouses

Jazmina Barrera (Author) · Christina Macsweeney (Translated by) · Two Lines Press · Paperback

On Lighthouses - Barrera, Jazmina ; Macsweeney, Christina

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Synopsis "On Lighthouses "

"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel." --The Paris ReviewFar from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here."Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others.In trying to "collect" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.

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