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Why Didn T You Just Do What You Were Told? eBook

Essays

by Jenny Diski
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, July of 2020 ‧
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Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism

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

''Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise'' Emilia Clarke

''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.

Why Didn T You Just Do What You Were Told?

Essays

by Jenny Diski

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ISBN: 9781526621924
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Release Date: July of 2020
Language: English
Pages: 448
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Essays
EAN: 9781526621924
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jenny Diski

Jenny diski nasceu em Londres, em 1947, cidade onde viveu e trabalhou quase sempre. Após um período conturbado na adolescência, foi acolhida pela escritora Doris Lessing durante alguns anos. Frequentou o curso de Antropologia, que nunca terminou, e deu aulas. Estreou-se na escrita depois de ser mãe, com Like Mother. Escreveu dez romances (o último dos quais Apology for the Woman Writing), um livro de contos, três ensaios (incluindo A View from the Bed and Other Observations) e cinco livros de viagens/memórias, entre os quais Skating to Antarctida e Desconhecida num Comboio. Este último valeu-lhe o prestigiado Prémio Thomas Cook Travel Book e o Prémio J.R. Ackerley for Autobiography. Dizia: «Viajo para me manter quieta.» Publicou textos durante mais de vinte anos na London Review of Books. Morreu em Cambridge, em 2016, deixando instruções para que nunca se dissesse que tinha «perdido a batalha» contra o cancro. «Não estou a lutar, perder, ganhar ou suportar.» O seu último livro publicado foi um diário da doença: On Gratitude.

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