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After These Things by Jenny Diski
27.00 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
After These Things is an account of the relationship between Abraham's tragic son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. In following the psychological trail of the children of Abraham, the first properly constituted family, we see all the complexities of love, power and desire that make them quintessentially hum ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
29.99 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
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph 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 t ...Show more
Jenny Diski - The Sixties by Jenny Diski
35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
27.99 NZD
30.99 (9% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Skating to Antarctica is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
38.99 NZD
Category: Essays
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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