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020			_a9780063030831 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0063030837 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1241164347
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092			_aLASLEY, T. _bL345
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLasley, Tabitha, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSea state : _ba memoir / _cTabitha Lasley.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_axiv, 220 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published as Sea State in the United Kingdom in 2021 by 4th Estate"--Title page verso.
520			_a"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 working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay--class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security. Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aT block -- Foum Assaka -- Tiffany -- T-211 -- Tern -- Brent Field -- Piper Bravo -- Ninian Central -- Clyde.
600	1	0	_aLasley, Tabitha.
600	1	0	_aLasley, Tabitha _xHomes and haunts _zScotland _zAberdeen.
650		0	_aOffshore oil industry _zNorth Sea _xEmployees.
650		0	_aDrilling platforms _zNorth Sea.
650		0	_aJournalists _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _9119968
650		0	_aOil industry workers _zGreat Britain _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aOil industry workers _xSexual behavior _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aOil well drilling rigs _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aMen _zGreat Britain _xIdentity.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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