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A View From the Bed and Other Observations by Jenny Diski
34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
"Please read these essays as the beginnings of an argument you might like to have." So begins this highly intelligent, witty collection, covering such diverse topics as "The Sexual Life of Catherine M" and whether Jesus walked on water because he couldn't swim. Highly recommended for sampling in associa ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion.He made her his adopted daughter ...Show more
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet. In August 2014, Jenny Diski was dia ...Show more
On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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 rambling ...Show more
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions by Jenny Diski
29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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 USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously fam ...Show more
The Sixties by Jenny Diski
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
39.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
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 editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more
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