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Diski, Jenny

 
9781526621900: Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays
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ISBN 10 : 1526621908 ISBN 13 : 9781526621900
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

'A tonic for the soul ... I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal' Emilia Clarke

'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times

'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New Yorker

Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books - selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude - have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.

From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated - and mordantly funny.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in publications including the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, to which she contributed more than two hundred articles over twenty-five years.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1526621908
ISBN 13 
9781526621900
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1526621940 ISBN 13 :  9781526621948
Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
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