On trying to keep still

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From the award-winning, fabulously unique writer - comes a most unusual series of journeys from Lapland to New Zealand to Somerset. Now in paperback. 'A luminous, brilliantly witty account of the trials of seeking stillnes' Joanna Kavenna, Telegraph

'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.

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nbcc finalistnew york times editors choicethe best of the indomitable jenny diski s essays an injection of grade a intellectual adrenaline vulture selected by the legendary editor mary kay wilmers diski expanded notions about what nonfiction as an art form could do and could be new yo Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, maandag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 maart 2007

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Jenny Diski

Hoofduitgeverij: Virago Press Ltd

Editie: New ed

Product breedte: 159 mm

Product hoogte: 20 mm

Product lengte: 199 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 123 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 197 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 504 g

EAN: 9781844080168

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