National Outdoor Book Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2004) Winner
Maria Coffey
マリア・コフィー
Maria Coffey
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- author, mountaineering writer
- Active Years
- 1980-
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest
2000 memoirA personal memoir in which the author recounts her relationship with Joe Tasker and her experience of grief and memory following his disappearance on Everest. The book focuses on mountaineering culture and the personal aspects of loss.
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Bibliography
- Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- personal, memoir stylelyrical yet measured description
- Recurring Motifs
- mountainslossremembrance
Legacy
Fragile Edge is regarded as an important personal account that communicates the tragedy and loss associated with mountaineering, contributing to public and literary understanding of climbing-related bereavement.
Trivia
- She was Joe Tasker's girlfriend and wrote the personal account Fragile Edge about his death.
- Fragile Edge was published in 2000 by Mountaineers Books.