Sarah Moss
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Sarah Moss is a lecturer in English at the University of Kent.
Værker af Sarah Moss
Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770-1830 (2009) 4 eksemplarer
Homeless Bodies 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Collection of Short Stories (2019) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1975
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Bopæl
- Warwickshire, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland - Erhverv
- Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick
senior lecturer at the University of Kent from 2004 – 2009
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Place at Exeter University’s Cornwall Campus - Organisationer
- University of Exeter
University of Reykjavik
University of Kent
University of Warwick - Kort biografi
- Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of two novels; Cold Earth (Granta 2010), and Night Waking (Granta 2012), which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012).
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Each chapter is written from the point of view of one individual from each cabin, except for one (there is a big reason for that).
There is almost no interaction between these people outside their cabins and the holidays are seemingly ruined by the constant rain. The gloomy mood is echoed by the characters who reflect on their lives in a stream-of-consciousness style, often with a dark sense of humour or very intimate, lyrical observations.
Each chapter gives us a piece of the puzzle before the main event takes place.
Some chapters are interludes about the natural world. These were beautiful.
“The woods expand, settle down for the night, offer a little more shelter to those that need it. Trees sleep, more or less. Maybe some nights they dream and wake, check the darkness, sleep again till dawn.”
Along the way, we catch little details, hints at Brexit, the climate crisis, the future full of uncertainty.
Summerwater reflects the spirit of times similar to the way Ali Smith does it in her Seasonal series. Obviously, their style is very different, but I love them both for their ability to gently move our focus from the big things we can't control to the compassion and love for those perceived as "the other" that we most certainly can.… (mere)