Bibliograph

On lighthouses, Jazmina Barrera ; translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

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Label

On lighthouses, Jazmina Barrera ; translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On lighthouses

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1112276563

Responsibility statement

Jazmina Barrera ; translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Summary

"Starting with Robert Louis Stevensons 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 zcollecty 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 stonefrom a hopeless isolation to a meaningful oneconcluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light."--, Amazon

Table Of Contents

Yaquina Head -- Jeffrey's Hook -- Montauk Point -- The Goury Lighthouse -- Blackwell -- The Tapia Lighthouse

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