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Diski, Jenny.
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English essays -- 20th century.
English essays -- 21st century.
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Diski, Jenny.
English essays -- 20th century.
English essays -- 21st century.
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Why
didn't you
just
do
what
you
were
told
? : essays / Jenny Diski ; [introduction by Mary-Kay Wilmers].
by
Diski, Jenny.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Call #:
824.914 D611w
Subjects
English essays -- 20th century.
English essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781526621900 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Why
did
you not
just
do
what
you
were
told
?
Why
did
not you
just
do
what
you
were
told
?
Description:
vi, 432 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Great Britain 2020"--T. p. verso.
Summary:
"A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, selected London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. Jenny 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."--From publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Other authors:
Wilmers, Mary-Kay, of introduction.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
824.914 D611w
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