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Moss, Sarah (2012) Names for the sea : strangers in Iceland. London : Granta. ISBN 9781847084156
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Abstract
Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who speaks to elves and a chef who guided Sarah's family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Granta | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9781847084156 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 368 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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