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Bezig met laden... Two in a boat (2005)door Gwyneth Lewis
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... At the book's start, Lewis is surfacing from a long period of clinical depression; Leighton is the rock who has seen her through it. Once afloat, these roles, which have largely defined their marriage, disintegrate, and in the confines of their little sloop, new ones emerge. In the hands of a good writer, a modern sailboat can be as effective a device as a sailing ship was for Conrad. Cut loose from "normal" life ashore, they can serve as a crucible in which human behaviour unravels. Lewis is such a writer. She is earnest rather than subtle about this, illustrating her story with numerous well-observed analogies between boats and marriage and knots and couples, but it all works. ... What might have been simply a rich, well-told yarn becomes a lot more when Leighton's descent turns unexpectedly dark, and, in retrospect, more understandable, giving the author a juicy if unwelcome narrative plot twist. Seasickness, a broken engine, bad weather, a visceral fear of the open sea, and the parallel intensifying turbulence of a marriage heading for the rocks, all suddenly become window dressing for a graver peril that, when revealed, the book seems to have been sailing toward all along. The whole journey then becomes prologue, and Lewis's voice and journey crest here in purpose and achievement. ...
In her forties and recovering from a long battle against depression and alcoholism, Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life -- a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC -- for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties. Intro class racer called Nitro, had a yellow hull and was totally unsuitable for beginners, so we bought her and started to learn how to sail in the Bristol Channel. Not long afterwards we were talking about renting out the house and sailing around the world. process not without its fair share of disasters, from psychotic seas off St. Govan's Head to broken ribs off Ballycotton), Gwyneth and Leighton set out to cross the Atlantic. Unfortunately Gwyneth's incessant seasickness and Leighton's daily deterioration into a moody Captain Bastard were not the only catastrophes with which they had to contend.This strange, stirring and often hilarious account of their voyage is as much a beginner's guide to sailing as it is a portrait of a marriage under the pressure of depression, both medical and meteorological. wonderfully visual quality, and her contagious optimism in the face of inconceivable adversity -- not much more could possibly have gone wrong -- makes this unique book both touchingly witty and incredibly wise. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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But I really admire her frankness about personal matters - health, marital problems and her perceived uselessness in handling a boat.