"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 workin
| ISBN: | 9780063030831 |
| Publication date: | 7th December 2021 |
| Author: | Tabitha Lasley |
| Publisher: | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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"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.
Sea State features in the following genres: Memoirs, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Geography, Fiction, Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Earth sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
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Sea State was written by Tabitha Lasley and published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
