On Trying To Keep Still
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On Trying To Keep Still
On Trying To Keep Still

On Trying To Keep Still

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Jenny Diski (Author)  

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'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?) Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her ramblings both mental and physical hoping as he did in time to make her mind ashamed of itself. Interspersed with ill-tempered descriptions of these trips are digressions on the subject of her sore foot; her childhood desire for 'a condition', thoughts about growing older, spiders, fundamentalism and the problems of keeping warm.
Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels including ONLY HUMAN and AFTER THESE THINGS plus two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge.
  • Contributor: Jenny Diski
  • Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781844080168
  • Number of Pages: 320
  • Packaged Dimensions: 159x199x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 226
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Release Date: 2007-03-01
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels including ONLY HUMAN and AFTER THESE THINGS plus two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge.

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