Jenny Diski – författare
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25 produkter
Stranger On A Train
Daydreaming and Smoking Around America
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 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, …
On Trying To Keep Still
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2007
158 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 …
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
Essays
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2021
152 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 …
Den sista resan
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2017
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 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 …
Allt jag inte vet om djur
Av Jenny Diski
Inbunden, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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, …
Skating To Antarctica
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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 …
Vanishing Princess
Stories
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2017
103 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 DiskiDescriptionJenny Diski''s prose is as sharp and steely …
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2003
294 kr
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Apology For The Woman Writing
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2014
45 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 …
What I Don't Know About Animals
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2010
45 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 …
In Gratitude
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2016
169 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 …
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
Essays
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2020
152 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 …
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?
Essays
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2021
155 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 …
Nothing Natural
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2027
149 kr
Kommande
With an introduction by Lena Dunham.“That’s right. That’s a good girl”An independent single mother in her thirties, Rachel has long lived a life of no-nonsense self-control. Then, one night she encounters the cold-eyed Joshua at a dinner party, and it seems as though all her darkest fantasies might …
After These Things
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2005
251 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 …
View From The Bed And Other Observations
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2003
316 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 …
Apology For The Woman Writing
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
283 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 …
What I Don't Know About Animals
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
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 …
Sixties
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2010
147 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 …
Nothing Natural
Av Jenny Diski
Häftad, 2003
335 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 …
Allt jag inte vet om djur
Av Jenny Diski
E-bok, 2016, 9-12 år
169 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, …
