Lifesaving
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Judith Barrington.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Eighth Mountain Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Barrington, Judith.; Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Lesbians -- Spain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The cruise ship Lakonia departed Southampton on December 19, 1963, on a Christmas voyage to the Canary Islands. Three days later, north of Madeira, a fire broke out. In the ensuing confusion and panic, a small group of passengers, including the author's parents, were left stranded without lifeboats and drowned. Barrington, just nineteen, left England and went to live in a small town in northern Spain.

Lifesaving is the story of those three years, of the people, the places, and of a young woman struggling to become an adult in the shadow of sudden and staggering loss."--BOOK JACKET.