num_pages: 174
description: For celebrated writer Jazmina Barrera humanitys fascination with the ocean is an invitation to explore one of its most potent symbols: the lighthouse. Brilliantly resisting the postcard kitsch typically associated with her subject On Lighthouses is a sweeping work that connects figures such as Robert Louis Stevenson Virginia Woolf Walter Benjamin and Anne Carson; Barreras interconnected essays offer a mesmerizing portraithistorical literary and decidedly personalof her obsession those structures whose message is first and foremost that human beings are here. On Lighthouses described as alluring and arresting as the landscapes and stories it conveys by the Los Angeles Review of Books takes readers on a journey from raging sea to cold stonefrom a hopeless isolation to a meaningful oneconcluding at last in a place of peace.
language: English
title: On Lighthouses
publisher: Two Lines Press