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Strangeland (Paperback)

by Tracey Emin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Sceptre (5 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340769467
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340769461
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,161 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Guardian
'Quite an extraordinary piece of writing'

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‘A fantastically engaging storyteller... heartbreaking... effortlessly funny’

( Metro )

‘As spare and poignant as one of Emin’s line drawings'

( Marie Claire )

‘A very readable book, and a surprising one too’

( Independent on Sunday )

'Eccentrically readable'

( Glamour )

‘Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory’

( Saturday Telegraph )

‘An extremely well-written and readable book’

( Glasgow Herald )

‘Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman’

( Grazia )

‘Emin talks with brutal frankness...genuinely uplifting’

( Scotsman )

‘A natural oddball – or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric’

( Telegraph Magazine )

‘Strangeland should not...be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake’

(Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph )

'[Emin’s] writings are painfully honest...Strangeland is more than Tracey’s diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention’

(Jeanette Winterson, The Times )

‘While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.’

( Observer )

‘Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author’s journey so far.’

(Australian Vogue )

‘Emin writes with fierce clarity.’

(Henry Hitchins, Times Literary Supplement )

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Strangeland, 10 Nov 2005
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This review is from: Strangeland (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.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow a Rollercoaster, 24 Mar 2006
This review is from: Strangeland (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!

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Tracey's strange world, 12 Mar 2006
By Dreamtrove (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strangeland (Hardcover)
The artist Tracey Emin became a household name after exhibiting such controversial works as 'Everyone I have Ever Slept With' (a tent covered with the names of the people she had slept with), and 'My Bed' (an unmade bed that she had slept in). Shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, Emin was one of a new wave of British artists that emerged during the late 1990s, along with Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing and Sarah Lucas

But this book is not about Tracey Emin the artist. It is about Tracey, the girl from Margate. About her unconventional childhood growing-up with her twin brother Paul, and her close relationship with her parents. Her yearning to love and to hold a child of her own, but at the same time realising that a lifestyle of parties, 'biting on the pillow' and vodka would make her an 'unfit' mother.

Strangeland is a recollection of lovers, drinking, sex and abortions. It invites us into Tracey's world, in the same way that much of her art does, and like her art this book is brutally honest. The book reveals the person behind the media hype, and tells us so much more about Tracey than any Emin biography ever could.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good read, Very Interesting.
This book is a very interesting read and although at times disturbing its gives you an insight into the mind Tracy Emin. Read more
Published 1 month ago by C. Spearpoint

4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful journey
Like many, I never knew much about Emin apart from what was portrayed in the media. This beautiful memoir, recorded in capsule memories and feelings, is wonderful.
Published 1 month ago by A. Thorn

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and funny - the book, and Tracey herself!
I guess, whether you like a biography or not, has much to do with your sympathy (or antipathy) for the person in question. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kirsten Petersen

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Having been a fan of Emin's work for some time, I was delighted when I came across this book on a visit to the Tate. Read more
Published 4 months ago by molko

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes Tracey.
I was alarmed to find that i became completely addicted to Strangeland, after not knowing very much about Emin before hand. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Lucy Scott

5.0 out of 5 stars Tracey has cut the crap
Autobiographical writing at it's best! No boring long-winded description or a need for telling everything. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Lou Ice

5.0 out of 5 stars Tracey Emin's autobiography
A superb autobiography from one of the U.K's top contemporary artists. In particular,it is a book would particularly appeal to female artists as it looks at the psyche behind... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Laura Harris

4.0 out of 5 stars Uncomfortable but Great Nonetheless
Someone described this book as not being about Tracey Emin's art. But surely that is what it is? Much of her art is raw, personal and confessional. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

4.0 out of 5 stars very good book
being a huge fan of tracy emin i felt this book was a necesary purchase and it did not disspoint. the book is arranged into three sections, motherland, fatherland and tracyland. Read more
Published 19 months ago by michelle bassam

4.0 out of 5 stars Believe the hype
As you'd expect, this is pretty raw at times, with lots of detail about rape, abortions and bad sex, but the writing lifts the subjects, and this was a really interesting and... Read more
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