Name: The Outrun: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780393355598

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The Outrun: A Memoir

Amy Liptrot

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After a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy's inspiring recovery as she walks along windy coasts, swims in icy Atlantic waters, tracks Orkney's wildlife, and reconnects with her parents, revisiting and rediscovering the place that shaped her.

A Guardian Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
New Statesman Book of the Year

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Apr 24th, 2018
Pages: 312
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.60lb
EAN: 9780393355598
Categories: • Memoirs• Women• Essays

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About the Author

Liptrot, Amy: - Amy Liptrot received the Wainwright Prize for nature writing and the PEN Ackerley Prize for memoir for The Outrun. Formerly a writer for Orkney Today, editor of the Edinburgh Student, an artist's model, and a trampolinist, she lives in Yorkshire.

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📚 EVERY STORY MATTERS. 🏆 The British Book Awards Publisher of the Year 2021. Discover our imprints ➡️ https://t.co/ECYXuq4WxJ

A very big happy publication day to @tanyashadrick - The Cure for Sleep is out in paperback today and we LOVE this beautiful new cover for Tanya's incredible book 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun https://t.co/yToYjIOTic https://t.co/YDWu9lLxU7

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🎧🚨The NEW episode of #MeetMeAtTheMuseum is ready for you to listen! Writer Amy Liptrot (@amy_may), author of The Outrun and The Instant, took her friend, poet @ZaffarKunial, along to the brilliant @BronteParsonage Museum Listen to the podcast👉https://t.co/arcRi96bcv👈 https://t.co/1jPjZnbCCh

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Three galleries. One world class collection. Discover in Edinburgh here: 📍National 📍Modern 📍Portrait & Online

For today's #onlineartexchange about literature we're sharing this portrait of Amy Liptrot (@amy_may) by Brian David Stevens (@driftingcamera). Liptrot's first book The Outrun was written on Papa Westray in Orkney, where a film adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan is now being shot. https://t.co/tMzrryR7AU

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Praise for this book

A stunning, wild, and gracefully rendered account of life in the Scottish hinterlands.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

Lyrical, transitioning from the rush of drinking into the raw sensations of island life.-- "Elle"

Uncompromising and lyrical ... The Outrun is a bright addition to the exploding genre of writing about place and our place in the natural world.-- "Observer"

A lyrical, brave memoir.... It's this aptitude Liptrot has for marrying her inner-space with wild outer-spaces that makes her such a compelling writer--and one to watch.-- "Guardian"

Luminous.... Fresh, clear-eyed and unflinching.-- "Sunday Times"

[T]he sheer sensuality of Liptrot's prose and her steely resolve immediately put her right up there with the best of the best. Liptrot is an Orcadian warrior with the breeze in her blood and poetry in her fingers, and The Outrun equals works by fellow islanders such as George Mackay Brown and Peter Maxwell Davies. It may even be a future classic.-- "New Statesman"

Amy Liptrot has lived her life on the edge of things, both literally and metaphorically. The Outrun, her beautiful first book, gives a wonderfully evocative account of both, blending searing memoir with sublime nature writing, and coming up with a unique piece of prose that amounts to a stirring personal philosophy of how to live. Her descriptive writing of the [Orkney] islands and their wildlife absolutely sizzles, a scintillating mix of clear-eyed insight and poetic heart.-- "Independent on Sunday"

Whether [Liptrot]... writes of walking along the wind-scoured coasts or taking polar-bear dips in the icy waters, her prose is spare, lean, and beautiful, much like the country about which she writes.-- "Booklist"

This magnificent memoir is a record of transformation in its truest sense... Orkney legends tell of seals changing into humans, but, here, Liptrot is the shape-shifter, peeling off her wetsuit like blubber after snorkeling in the ice-cold sea.-- "Publishers Weekly"

Worth reading for the descriptions of life on a 'beautiful, barely touched stretch of land.'-- "Kirkus Reviews"

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📚 EVERY STORY MATTERS. 🏆 The British Book Awards Publisher of the Year 2021. Discover our imprints ➡️ https://t.co/ECYXuq4WxJ

Keeping you connected with art and exhibitions across the UK. Feed your museum habit. Discover more with #NationalArtPass 🖼 #MuseumoftheYear

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