Søkt på: Søkeresultat
totalt 7 treff
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
Using 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 …
In Gratitude
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 …
Then Again
A novel that explores the nature of belief, the boundaries between madness and sanity, revelation and delusion, and good and evil.
The Vanishing Princess: Stories
"Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski's is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the …
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays
NBCC FinalistNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline" (Vulture), selected by the legendary …
Sixties: 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 …
Only Human: A Divine Comedy
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 God First came Adam, whose fall …