If you Enjoy Emin's art then you must buy this book. On the contary, it just means that you have to put the story into context with who she is. This does not mean that book is not worth reading. That said, I would venture to suggest that had this book not been written by an established artist, then it would have never been published.
This is not a book that is easy to put down. It is, however, shocking to discover that so many female readers relate to this work, bearing in mind the blunt scenes of sexual abuse that the author describes. She has led an interesting life and she will continue to do so. It is all out there for thoose that want to read it. I enjoyed her style of writing and the book had a good voice in parts. Emin writes this book with a painful honesty and a navity that both devalues it's literary worth and paradoxcally makes it all the more interesting. It is, however, shocking t I read this book in one sitting and found it, for the most part, quite disturbing, and partly entertaining and also in parts quite dull. I read this book in one sitting and found it, for the most part, quite disturbing, and partly entertaining and also in parts quite dull. The dentist gave me some antibiotics - and a cast of my own teeth.Ĭouldn't believe it was only a week ago that I went out and had a good time.more I had an abcess and a totally fucked tooth that had to be removed. By now, the oil of cloves had burnt my gums. Still felt terribly low, knowing that I could end up in an iron lung. It amused me, a drawing made of my own breath. Thomas's Hospital for a lung scan and a chest medical. Told it could be taken out in a weekand I would not be pregnant.
Indescribable pain as it was pushed into the neck of my womb. Had to be fitted with an IUD: a piece of copper wire wrapped around a plastic hook. Went to pick up my pills too late and too late by two fucking hours for the morning-after pill. Took fifty painkillers and dabbed on a ton of oil of cloves. Spent the whole weekend in bed, depressed and trying to recover, with a throbbing tooth and scabs breaking out all over my chin. I threw up nine more times during the day. My eyes about to burst, swearing to God I would never drink again. Small white balls of foamy stuff cascading out of my mouth. Ran to the bathroom to throw up, shitting at the same time, holding on to the pan. Woke up having sex - with a terrible hangover. Saturday and Sunday Spent the whole weekend in bed, depressed and trying to recover, with a throbbing tooth and scabs breaking out all over my -184
184 From a Week of Hell Friday Woke up having sex - with a terrible hangover.
'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life.Ī remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. 'Frequently affecting.intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. 'Frequently affecting.intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of he The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.
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