‘Honest and extraordinary’ GUARDIAN
‘A remarkable book – and an original, beautiful mind’ EVENING STANDARD
Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamed it would be like this.
Welcome to Strangeland.
The incandescent world of Tracey Emin.
Encompassing the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and the art-filled chaos of her thirty-something life in London.
Intimate and original, these confessions are deeply moving. In spite of the challenges she faces, Tracey remains profoundly romantic and uncompromisingly honest. Here is her life on the page.
This twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new introduction from Emin herself, celebrates the formative memories of one of Britain’s greatest contemporary artists.
‘Beautiful . . . unguarded, open-hearted, shocking’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Painfully honest’ JEANETTE WINTERSON, THE TIMES
‘A remarkable book – and an original, beautiful mind’ EVENING STANDARD
Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamed it would be like this.
Welcome to Strangeland.
The incandescent world of Tracey Emin.
Encompassing the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and the art-filled chaos of her thirty-something life in London.
Intimate and original, these confessions are deeply moving. In spite of the challenges she faces, Tracey remains profoundly romantic and uncompromisingly honest. Here is her life on the page.
This twentieth-anniversary edition, with a new introduction from Emin herself, celebrates the formative memories of one of Britain’s greatest contemporary artists.
‘Beautiful . . . unguarded, open-hearted, shocking’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Painfully honest’ JEANETTE WINTERSON, THE TIMES
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Reviews
A raw and uncompromising read . . . but it is also a tale of hope and inspiration . . . her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind
Beautiful . . . as vivid a piece of writing about a childhood as you could hope to read - unguarded, open-hearted, shocking
Magical
An extraordinary piece of writing . . . Brace yourself. Let's say this is a memoir (and most of the time, it is, although her relationship to the truth is variable: incidents described here have been contradicted by her elsewhere); it couldn't be filmed. The director and half the cast would be arrested . . . she has played the hand she has been dealt as skilfully and tenaciously as anyone could have, while still retaining a belief in beauty. And Strangeland comes over as honest and extraordinary
A very readable book, and a surprising one too
Her writings are painfully honest . . . Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention
An extremely well-written and readable book
Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far
Emin writes with fierce clarity
As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings
Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman, challenging conventions
Written with a furious energy
Eccentrically readable
Emin talks with brutal frankness . . . genuinely uplifting
Strangeland should not . . . be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake
A fantastically engaging storyteller . . . heartbreaking . . . effortlessly funny
Poignant and sensitive
Frequently affecting . . . read Emin for intriguing, almost incantatory sections on her travels to Turkey, the occasional shaft of two-fingers-up-at-the-world wit and the delight of seeing someone revel in vicious vengefulness
While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.
[An] odd and powerful memoir
A combination of memoir and confession and gives an insight into the mind of one of contemporary art's most intriguing figures