Product Description

'Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'



Tracey Emin's STRANGELAND is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13245 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Guardian
'Quite an extraordinary piece of writing'

Review

‘A fantastically engaging storyteller... heartbreaking... effortlessly funny’

( Metro )

‘As spare and poignant as one of Emin’s line drawings'

( Marie Claire )

‘A very readable book, and a surprising one too’

( Independent on Sunday )

'Eccentrically readable'

( Glamour )

‘Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory’

( Saturday Telegraph )

‘An extremely well-written and readable book’

( Glasgow Herald )

‘Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman’

( Grazia )

‘Emin talks with brutal frankness...genuinely uplifting’

( Scotsman )

‘A natural oddball – or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric’

( Telegraph Magazine )

‘Strangeland should not...be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake’

(Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph )

'[Emin’s] writings are painfully honest...Strangeland is more than Tracey’s diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention’

(Jeanette Winterson, The Times )

‘While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.’

( Observer )

‘Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author’s journey so far.’

(Australian Vogue )

‘Emin writes with fierce clarity.’

(Henry Hitchins, Times Literary Supplement )

Observer
'Her angry writing can be uncompromising...but that is balanced by
humour and a vulnerability that may surprise'