Smiling in Slow Motion
Author: Jarman, Derek
ISBN: 9781784875169
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 416
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times
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.
ISBN: 9781784875169
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 416
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 28mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times
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.
