- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre; 1st ed. edition (17 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340769440
- ISBN-13: 978-0340769447
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Strangeland for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
'Emin retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty ... A remarkable book - and a beautiful mind.' -- Croydon Advertiser 'A fantastically engaging storyteller...Emin is heartbreaking ... but she's also effortlessly funny ... This book is a reminder of why so many people respond with their hearts to her work.' -- Metro 'It took me by surprise with its incredibly upfront yet poignant portrait of Tracey's life. No pretension, no primadonna hysterics - just a beautifully crafted and brutally honest exploration of her world. It blew me away.' -- Hugo Hutchison, Marketing 'Reading STRANGELAND is like drinking a bottle of vodka with Tracey and listening to her talk, with real honesty, about everything. I am not sure what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting her warmth, wit and humour. It really is wonderful.' -- Louise Sherwin-Stark, Sales 'It took me totally by surprise - her ability as a writer, the mixture of styles, the brutal honesty of it all. It feels as if it has been stripped of all superfluous material and we're left with only those moments of her life that Tracey feels are defining and important.' -- Brett Woods, Production
Marie Claire
‘As spare and poignant as one of Emin’s line drawings…A reminder of why so many people respond with their hearts’
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Being a big fan of Tracey Emin's work, I'm surprised it took me so long to buy a copy of this book. I was very intrigued to learn more about the woman behind the headlines and all the speculation in the media. Tracey comes across as a very soulful, troubled individual whose life has been a rollercoaster of incredible highs and crushing lows.
Motherland is the first part of the book and covers her youth in Margate, Fatherland covers her travels to Turkey and relationship with her father and Traceyland (the most interesting part) is about the adult Tracey's experiences in London and New York, living wildly, dealing with pregnancy and abortion and still managing to see life as a beautiful adventure despite the turmoil she's been through.
She strikes me as someone I'd love to know in real life; relatable, funny, warm and honest. The book is disappointingly short, I'd have liked more from the 3rd part purely because she's so interesting that you don't want to stop hearing about her experiences.
I'd recommend this book to all young women, especially (she gives great advice on dealing with unwanted pregnancies) as she emerges as a successful and wise woman even though she has been mistreated by men on many occasions. Tracey's not a man-hater, by any stretch, she falls in love frequently and deeply and talks of how she sometimes really enjoys sex. It's just that this book is a very female account of life.
You won't regret the time you spent reading it, though you're likely to whizz through it as it's so un-put-down-able.
Motherland is the first part of the book and covers her youth in Margate, Fatherland covers her travels to Turkey and relationship with her father and Traceyland (the most interesting part) is about the adult Tracey's experiences in London and New York, living wildly, dealing with pregnancy and abortion and still managing to see life as a beautiful adventure despite the turmoil she's been through.
She strikes me as someone I'd love to know in real life; relatable, funny, warm and honest. The book is disappointingly short, I'd have liked more from the 3rd part purely because she's so interesting that you don't want to stop hearing about her experiences.
I'd recommend this book to all young women, especially (she gives great advice on dealing with unwanted pregnancies) as she emerges as a successful and wise woman even though she has been mistreated by men on many occasions. Tracey's not a man-hater, by any stretch, she falls in love frequently and deeply and talks of how she sometimes really enjoys sex. It's just that this book is a very female account of life.
You won't regret the time you spent reading it, though you're likely to whizz through it as it's so un-put-down-able.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am still reeling from TE's book.
She and I are the same age and her description of the Margate of her youth could have been my town in the same era - music, boys, underage sex and drinking. Also, as a mother of boy/girl twins, I understand the way she describes her relationship with Paul which is at once accurate and shocking in its frankness.
Although in places her writing was erratic and confusing; this is acceptable when put in context - the book is a collection of writing she has laid down through the years. That aside, there are passages containing descriptive prose that is both poigniant and beautiful. Let's face it, would anyone expect a book by Tracey Emin to be a 'comfortable' bedtime read? She is honest, open, and tells it how it was/is.
It is a great insight into the life of a very talented lady with experiences that most of us couldn't begin to imagine. An inspired, artistic mind driven to the edge by its creativity.
God preserve Ms Emin and thanks for an uncomfortable, thought-provoking read!
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed Tracey Emin's Strangeland. It had the best advice on how to make a fishfinger sandwich and the practicalities of preventing an unwanted pregnancy that I have read. Her description of loneliness and how lonely people always look at the sky struck a chord with me. In fact she describes the sky in many of the extracts which her book is made up of. I think most visual people are fixated by the sky. Her description of her behaviour before her period arrives was comical, it was so true to life. I think may women go through similar bizarre behaviour patterns and look back three days later and think was that me?
She doesn't write about her art but I suspect this is the background to a future novel about her art which she is not yet prepared to write. Perhaps she is superstitious about this and doesn't want to lose her touch. I look forward to it when she writes it.
She doesn't write about her art but I suspect this is the background to a future novel about her art which she is not yet prepared to write. Perhaps she is superstitious about this and doesn't want to lose her touch. I look forward to it when she writes it.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great read
This book is just great! I was a bit dubious about it as I haven't always been a fan of Emin's work. Read more
Published 1 month ago by N.Lowe
Heart Wrenchingly Honest and Funny as Piss
being a bit of a biography addict of late and vowing to STOP my addiction i decided this would be my last. And what an amazing book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by flaps
When I was 14-15 there was nothing to my life but dancing and sex
Sub-titled "The jagged recollections of a beautiful mind," I felt slightly shell-shocked when I got to the end of this rather tedious but undoubtedly honest story of her life so... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Eileen Shaw
As raw as her artwork
This was nothing new to me. As a fan of Emin, I knew what to expect and that's what I got. It was simply a piece of her artwork, but in writing. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Stepping Out of the Page
True Insight
Ever since hearing about Tracey Emin, I knew she was something different, then I picked up her book at my local library and read it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by H. Whitehorn
Must Read
For those slightly skeptical of Tracey and her life/career I urge you to read this book!!! It will transform your views on this YBA and her controversial art. Read more
Published 11 months ago by LHL
Strangelands ..... strange book.
Strangelands ..... strange book. There is such a sadness in her descriptions of imaginary births, mourning the children she never had, and some nice interplay between real and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Pensato
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized...
I bought this having had a sudden interest in learning more about the chameleon that is Tracey Emin. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Bonham
Present
Personally, I would rather scrape my piles with a cheese-grater than read anything by this ghastly woman. Even my weird teenage daughter seemed unimpressed.
Published 20 months ago by Timothy R. Armstrong
Unmissable
Tears and laughter are all part of this book, she makes you think about your life and except things that cannot be changed, well worth reading and will give my daughter a copy for... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Joysjesters
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
