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Häftad, Engelska, 2004
165 kr
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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?)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 familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like the pulse of the train over the rails, the theme of the dying pleasures of smoking thrums through the book, along with reflections on the condition of solitude and the nature of friendship and memories triggered by her past times in psychiatric hospitals. Cutting between her troubled teenaged years and contemporary America, the journey becomes a study of strangers, strangeness and estrangement - from oneself, as well as from the world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
145 kr
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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 YorkerJenny 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
302 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2017103 kr
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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 Diski
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Jenny 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 illness in strikingly honest essays in the London Review of Books, readers, admirers, and critics around the world mourned the loss. In a cool and unflinching tone that came to define her singular voice, she explored the subjects of sex, power, domesticity, femininity, hysteria, and loneliness with humor and honesty,
The stories in The Vanishing Princess showcase a rarely seen side of this beloved writer, channeling both the piercing social examination of her nonfiction and the vivid, dreamlike landscapes of her novels. In a Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale turned on its head, a miller’s daughter rises to power and wealth to rule over her kingdom and outwit the title villain. “Bathtime” tells the story of a woman’s life through her attempts to build the perfect bathtub, chasing an elusive moment of peace. In “Short Curcuit,” the author mines her own bouts in and out of mental institutions outside London to question whether those we think are mad are really the sanest among us.
Longtime fans of Diski and those who have discovered her since her death will find much to treasure here, in her only short story collection, released in the US for the very first time. The Vanishing Princess is another vital stop on Jenny Diski’s journey for meaning and beauty in her prolific writing, one that feels as fresh and necessary as if it were brand-new.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
282 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2003
297 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2009
270 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 201444 kr
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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 by intellectuals, she became his editor. Jenny Diski engages with this passionate and confused relationship between ''father and daughter'', old writer/young acolyte, possible lovers, using both their voices. Much of their story is about absence of the people they love. In Jenny Diski''s hands it becomes a fascinating tale.
E-bok
Engelska, 201044 kr
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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?)What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She''s really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have looked at, studied, treated and written about the non-human creatures with whom we share the planet. Subtle, intelligent and brilliantly observed, What I Don''t Know About Animals is an engaging look at what it means to be human - and what it means to be animal.
E-bok
Engelska, 2016164 kr
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_______________''One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation'' - Daily Telegraph''Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman'' - Helen Davies, Sunday Times''She deserves our unfeigned admiration, not for her bravery or her struggle, or any irrelevant tosh like that, but for writing so well'' - Guardian_______________In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given ''two or three years'' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself.Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude. A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
137 kr
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_______________'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman' - Helen Davies, Sunday Times'She deserves our unfeigned admiration, not for her bravery or her struggle, or any irrelevant tosh like that, but for writing so well' - Guardian_______________In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself.Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude. A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.
E-bok
Engelska, 2020150 kr
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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 YorkerJenny 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.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2021150 kr
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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 YorkerJenny 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
148 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2005
290 kr
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Continuing with her narration of the story of the Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, After These Things is an account of the relationship between Abraham's tragic son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. The book follows the psychological trail of the children of Abraham, the first properly constituted family and finds that like all families, their story is structured by wishes and fears. In Isaac and Jacob's relationship we see all the complexities of love, power, desire that make them quintessentially human.The inimitable Jenny Diski tells this ancient story anew, with the deliciously subversive wit and intelligence readers have come to expect from this wonderfully surprising writer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
155 kr
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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 Sámi 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
313 kr
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As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I'm convinced that the best place for a rabbit's foot is at the end of a rabbit's leg. And if there are fairies at the bottom of the garden, they go about their business and I go about mine. But although this approach keeps life on an even keel and prevents the stress of both over-excitement and grave disappointment, I do find that the perfectly mundane existence that I strive for and attain can occasionally seem a little flat, a bit lacking in absurdity. So from time to time, when a rattling cliche, or a good thumping banality presents itself, I'm inclined to give it a run for its money. Hand me a candle and I'll burn it at both ends, give me a cart and I'll put it before the horse.'In her inimitable style, coupled with her sharp wit and idiosyncratic views, Diski reviews her own experiences, an array of key historical figures and pertinent topics. Ranging from 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M.' and her ponderings on the thrill of guilt, to the biblical role of water in 'Did Jesus walk on water because he couldn't swim?' this is vintage Diski.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
165 kr
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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?) This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul . . . a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vivid description of the natural world. While Diski's writing is laconic, her images are haunting.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
281 kr
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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 by intellectuals, she became his editor. Jenny Diski engages with this passionate and confused relationship between 'father and daughter', old writer/young acolyte, possible lovers, using both their voices. Much of their story is about absence of the people they love. In Jenny Diski's hands it becomes a fascinating tale.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
165 kr
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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?)What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. She remembers the animal books she read in her childhood; the cartoons she watched; the meals she ate; the strays she found; the animals who have lived and still live with her. She examines human beings, too, and the way in which we have looked at, studied, treated and written about the non-human creatures with whom we share the planet. Subtle, intelligent and brilliantly observed, What I Don't Know About Animals is an engaging look at what it means to be human - and what it means to be animal.
E-bok
Engelska, 2010143 kr
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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 dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era - liberation, permissiveness and self-invention - to consider what she and her generation were really up to. Was it rude to refuse to have sex with someone? Did they take drugs to get by, or to see the world differently? How responsible were they for the self-interest and greed of the Eighties? With characteristic wit and verve, Diski takes an incisive look at the radical beliefs to which her generation subscribed, little realising they were often old ideas dressed up in new forms, sometimes patterned by BIBA. She considers whether she and her peers were as serious as they thought about changing the world, if the radical sixties were funded by the baby-boomers'' parents, and if the big idea shaping the Sixties was that it really felt as if it meant something to be young.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
281 kr
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Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency ... But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself ... In a sense which horrifies her, she has found herself ... An outstandingly well-written novel' New StatesmanAn addictive story of a dangerous love affair with a shocking denoument, this is a complex examination of the relations between the sexes at their most combatative and collusive. It is a clever book with much to tell us about the nature of desire and what should or should not be permissable.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2023
354 kr
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2012
230 kr
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Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på. I den här underhållande boken visar Jenny Diski med eftertryck varför. Med avstamp i sina egna gosedjur, djuren i sagovärlden, djur hon levt med och djur hon varit rädd för, tar hon med läsaren på en odyssé. Roligt, känsligt och intelligent. Underhållande läsning om vad det innebär att vara djur och människa. Jenny Diski är en välkänd litterär journalist och har med sina böcker om inre och yttre resor fått en trogen läsekrets.
E-bok
Svenska, 2016, 9-12 år169 kr
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Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på. I den här underhållande boken visar Jenny Diski med eftertryck varför. Med avstamp i sina egna gosedjur, djuren i sagovärlden, djur hon levt med och djur hon varit rädd för, tar hon med läsaren på en odyssé. Roligt, känsligt och intelligent. Underhållande läsning om vad det innebär att vara djur och människa. Jenny Diski är en välkänd litterär journalist och har med sina böcker om inre och yttre resor fått en trogen läsekrets.
E-bok
Svenska, 2017169 kr
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När Jenny Diski får diagnosen lungcancer med "två till tre år kvar att leva" vet hon inte hur hon ska reagera. Som författare bestämmer hon sig för att skriva om livet med sjukdomen. Och om sin femtio år långa komplicerade vänskap med nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing. Det blir en sista resa från ett före till ett efter, den här gången enbart i det inre, det som hon ändå helst alltid återvänt till och hemma i den älskade soffan där hon alltid trivts bäst. På sitt vanliga klara, bitska, krispiga vis börjar hon skriva om sitt liv med sjukdomen. Berättelsen om de fyra stormiga åren då hon bodde hemma hos Doris Lessing och skildringen av deras långa vänskap därefter ger en bild av Doris Lessing som ingen annan hade kunnat ge och ett helt nytt läsesätt till Lessings böcker. De självbiografiska anteckningarna om Jennys egen uppväxt med en pappa som var solochvårare och en mamma med psykiska problem, om livet i swinging London, om barn och barnbarn (kanske det enda som gör det riktigt svårt att tänka på döden, att inte få se dem växa upp) allt kastar också ett nytt ljus över Diskis eget författarskap. Pressröster om Den sista resan: "Ett osentimentalt vasst och ömsint bokslut över livet av en författare som var bra på att tänka och ännu bättre på att skriva om det hon tänkte på." Therese Eriksson, Svenska Dagbladet "Om man inte har läst Diski innan är det hög tid att göra det nu" Katarina Wikars, Kulturnytt, P1 "En djupt trösterik bok och ett unikt porträtt av en av världens mest talangfulla författare, som sent kommer att falla i glömska." Lena S. Karlsson, Dala-Demokraten "Diski är intellektuell utan att bli uteslutande, vass utan att bli elak, smart och rolig." Bella Stenberg, Göteborgs-Posten "Hon förtjänar vår oreserverade beundran, inte för sitt mod eller sin kamp eller något annat oväsentligt trams i den stilen, utan för att hon skriver så bra." Andrew Brown i The Guardian "Hur produktiv hon än varit, så är detta den historia som var den viktigaste för Diski att få berätta." Blake Morrison i The Guardian " den starkaste bekräftelse på sin existens och det mest omstörtande försvar en författare kan uppbringa mot sin egen utplåning." Heidi Julavits i The New York Times "Hennes bok påminner oss om den glädje, det sällskap och den näring det ligger i att bara tänka, särskilt om man gör det så väl som hon gör här." Anne Enright i The Irish Times Jenny Diski (1947-2016) var en återkommande skribent i flera olika tidningar, däribland svenska Göteborgsposten. Fem av hennes böcker finns tidigare utgivna på Alfabeta: På tunn is (2004), Främling på tåg (2005), Den motvilliga resenären (2007), Till den skrivande kvinnans försvar (2011) och Allt jag inte vet om djur (2012). Hon levde under många år, fram till sin död, tillsammans med författaren Ian Patterson, alltid kallad Poeten, så även i denna sista bok.