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作者： Peter Hill 著

出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House

出版时间： 2004-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 377印刷时间： 2004/08/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781841955469包装： 精装内容简介

In 1973, Glasgow-born Hill impulsively dropped out of art school to train as a lighthouse keeper at a series of remote outposts off Scotland's coast. He was, he recalls, the very image of the teenage baby boomer: longhaired, scruffy, dragging his rock 'n' roll tapes around everywhere. Yet he appears to have enjoyed himself immensely, spending weeks in close quarters with a handful of much older men, listening to their anecdotes and learning how to cook huge meals. The biggest problem with this loose, digressive account is that that's pretty much all they did other than keep the lights on. There are some amusing scenesâ?"one lighthouse crew's obsession with the televised Watergate hearings; a game of Scrabble in which only nautical terms are allowedâ?"but the pace is otherwise slow moving. While that sometimes makes for remarkable character studies, the narrative is burdened by Hill's grandiose faith in the significance of his generational moment. As a result, the memoir reads more like an elegy for his lost youth than one for the lighthouse keepers who would soon be replaced by automated technology. Furthermore, American readers will struggle to make sense of the references to 1970s BBC programming, which serve as hooks to describe nearly everyone Hill meets (the book was published in the U.K. last year). At least it's easy to grasp the Scots dialect; the gruff men who speak it hold much of the tale's vitality. In contrast, Hill's more direct efforts to wax charmingly nostalgic sound too often merely pretentious, like the sort of pompous middle-aged prattle Hill would have fled from if he were still 19.

目录

Introduction - Ahoy!

Part One - How I Landed the Job

The Tavern Bar

The Interview

Getting There: By Train, Boat and Tractor

Part Two - Pladda: Learning the Ropes

The Mysteries of the Light Chamber

Instructions for a Nuclear War

Better than an All-Day-Breakfast

Summer of the Creep

Cooking up a Storm

A Change of Crew

Heard Chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay"

Great Chieftain o' the Pudding Race

A Brief History of Lighthouses

Shore Leave I: A Surfeit of Choice

Part Three - Ailsa Craig

Paddy's Milestone

Rock of Ages

The Lost World

The Island Visitors

Fire bombs in Dresden - Mackerel off Ailsa Craig

Sex in the Bush

Light Without Flesh

Shore Leave II: The Edinburgh Festival

Part Four - Hyskeir

The Seamens Mission, Oban - The Whirleybirds

The Dalek Invasion of Hyskeir

Nautical Scrabble

Hitchcock Revisited

Postscript

Ocean Necklace

 

 

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