{"product_id":"stargazing-memoirs-of-a-young-lighthouse-keeper-paperback","title":"Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Hill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHill was nineteen, it was 1973 and, with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, he spent six months on various lighthouses, \"keeping\" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. Within thirty years this way of life was to have disappeared entirely. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting book is a charming and beautifully written memoir that is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA generous book ... as full of lost dreams as a starry sky on a foggy night \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, the Watergate trial and Coronation Street, is about to spend six months on various remote Scottish lighthouses, keeping with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis charming and beautifully written account of that time is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePoetic and evocative ... What makes \u003ci\u003eStargazing\u003c\/i\u003e such a beautiful book is that it is more than an elegy to a vanished profession. It is an elegy to youth and to the constellation of dreams, ambitions and anxieties that is more intense at 19 than it can ever be again \u003ci\u003eSunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA gentle comedy of manners, which pitches the green-around-the-gills Hill - an adolescent idealist - into the intrinsically no- nonsense, manly world of the lighthouse \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs read on bbc radio 4 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCover photograph: Courtesy of Photonica\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Ghost\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Hill\u003c\/b\u003e was born to an Australian mother and Scottish father and grew up in Glasgow. Following a brief stint as a lighthouse keeper, he did a number of jobs but for the past twenty years he has focused most of his energy into his art and working as an art critic. He has written for many publications including the \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtpresse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterview\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1986 founded the arts magazine \u003ci\u003eAlba\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Sydney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47479749378226,"sku":"9781841954998","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fc632499ed13d85d030a64db6462fd13.webp?v=1779244777","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/stargazing-memoirs-of-a-young-lighthouse-keeper-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}