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Smiling in Slow Motion Journals, 1991-1994

By Derek , Jarman

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Classics
Year
2018
ISBN
9781473559066, 1473559065
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
32 MB (33070538 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT 'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest. Written from Jarman's Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride.

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