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The Outrun: Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize 2016, Ausgezeichnet: Wainwright Prize 2016, Nominiert: Gordon Burn Prize, Nominiert: Saltire Award, Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Ackerley Prize 2017 - Softcover

Liptrot, Amy

 
9781782115489: The Outrun: Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize 2016, Ausgezeichnet: Wainwright Prize 2016, Nominiert: Gordon Burn Prize, Nominiert: Saltire Award, Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Ackerley Prize 2017
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178211548X ISBN 13: 9781782115489
Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd., 2016

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2017 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

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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 her 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. This is her first book.

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At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

An exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney that was a runaway hit in hardback - 'A future classic' New Statesman

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At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.

An exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney that was a runaway hit in hardback - 'A future classic' New Statesman

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Verlag
Canongate Books Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178211548X
ISBN 13 
9781782115489
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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