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Jenny Diski
Skating to Antarctica’ is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.
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A collection of Diski’s essays from the London Review of Books, The Guardian, New Statesman, and the Observer.
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* From the award-winning author of STRANGER ON A TRAIN and SKATING TO ANTARTICA, a extraordinary novel based on a real story
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From one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about terminal cancer and the author’s relationship with Nobel Prize…
Having seen enough of the results of autonomy and imagination with Adam and Eve, and dull obedience in the shape of the dutiful Noah, God tried once more to infiltrate…
In this brilliant, alternative take on the 1960s, Diski examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what really endures, and…
The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski’s essays, an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.
Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading…
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski’s essays, one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books…
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The only story collection from … Jenny Diski–darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales –
* From the award-winning writer, following her memoirs, Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train, On Trying to Keep Still - a unique book about animal watching, out now in…
Reissue of one of Jenny Diski’s early novels, on the theme of power and collusion in a sado-masochistic relationship.
In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the…
Ingrid Bertrand
How are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? Bertrand shows how biblical women in contemporary literature are given a voice that rests not only on…
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