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Description'Wake up! You're at sea - it doesn't matter which sea, it's just rising and falling. You're alone in a little boat. You have no idea how you got there. You look along the horizon. It's as sharp as a razor-cut. There's nothing but sea and the cloche of sky, the salty bobbing earth curving away...and then there is something just there, where the sun makes the water flare and shimmy. There are two dots. Two things that aren't sea; they're boats. 'These boats have a purpose, they have come for you and that is the nature of these things, these instructive fables. The inner narrator tells you that although they are coming solely for you, you can stop only one. On the one boat, there is a man who will give you food, fresh water, some oars and directions to get to land and he'll even come with you if you like; but in the other boat there is only a man who, if you ask him, will tell you how you got here. So that's the dilemma - which boat do you stop?' Aged thirty, at a treatment centre in the west of England, A. A. Gill lay in the last-chance saloon, in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. Promotion infoA. A. Gill's compulsive memoir of the lost year between the end of his marriage and the end of his drinking. Author descriptionA. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews, which have been published as Paper View and Table Talk. He has written three books on travel: A. A. Gill is Away, Previous Convictions and A. A. Gill is Further Away, as well as two novels, and full-length studies of England, The Angry Island, and America, The Golden Door. |