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  • Stranger on a Train

    Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

    de Jenny Diski ...
    The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation's smoking sectionsUsing 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 back to her own past. As she did in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Vanishing Princess

    Stories

    de Jenny Diski ...
    The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski—darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time"Mordant and talon-sharp." —Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Jenny DiskiDescriptionJenny Diski's prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous. When she died of cancer in April 2016, after chronicling her ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

    Essays

    de Jenny Diski ...
    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 YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for w... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Apology For The Woman Writing

    de Jenny Diski ...
    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 for the two months they knew each other. He died four years later, after which, though scorned ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • In Gratitude

    de Jenny Diski ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book ReviewFrom "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sixties

    de Jenny Diski ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era.What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • What I Don't Know About Animals

    de Jenny Diski ...
    "Will make any pet owner, zoogoer or meat-eater wonder whether we really know anything about . . .other species . . .[this] book raises all the right questions." — Washington PostWhat Jenny Diski know about animals? She wasn't really sure as she began to write this memoir. But of this she is certain: our relationships with, and attitudes toward, animals are really worth thinking about.Diski sets ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cognition Switch #7

    de Gaia Vince, Michael Regnier, Jenny Diski, Geoff Watts, Lucy Maddox, Emma Young, Jo Marchant, Peter Aldhous, Mary O’Hara, Shayla Love, Will Storr ...
    Series Libro 7 - Cognition Switch
    An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas.Issue #7: July 2019Featuring Ideas by:Gaia Vince, Michael Regnier, Jenny Diski, Geoff Watts, Lucy Maddox, Emma Young, Jo Marchant, Peter Aldhous, Mary O’Hara, Shayla Love, and Will Storr ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Only Human

    A Divine Comedy

    de Jenny Diski ...
    What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their GodFirst came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty He found dull. God resolves for a third and final time to get it right, to select a vessel through whom He can direct human affairs, and to whom He ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Pattinando in Antartide

    de Jenny Diski ...
    Traducido por Francesca Bandel Dragone ...
    Alla fine degli anni Novanta, Jenny Diski osserva la propria stanza da letto interamente bianca e ripensa al candore degli ospedali dove era stata ricoverata quando era una ragazza in crisi. Per lei il bianco è un sottrarsi alla vita, ai pensieri, all'incessante frastuono dei ricordi. E poco a poco diventa un desiderio prepotente, che si traduce in un piano preciso: spingersi fino in Antartide, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

    Essays

    de Jenny Diski ...
    Narrado por Charlotte Randle, Chloe Diski ...

    Completo

    13 hora 32 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski, read by Charlotte Randle and Chloe Diski.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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • A Manual for Cleaning Women

    Selected Stories

    de Lucia Berlin ...
    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the L... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro