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Description
Choose the pursuit of happiness if you really must, but there are better things to do with a life, unless freedom from difficulty is the only acceptable existence.
Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books – selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats – have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.
Original, opinionated and well ahead of her time, this collection will allow readers old and new to 'read Diski for the pleasures of Diski, but also read Diski to learn what we may think, in the future, about how, were we possessed by foresight, we might have better performed our humanity in the now' (New Yorker)
Product details
| Published | 03 Nov 2020 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 448 |
| ISBN | 9781526621900 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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One of the most electrifying memoirists of her generation ... A superb volume of autobiographical fragments
Daily Telegraph
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One of the most inventive writers of her generation
Independent
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She is savagely good company
Daily Telegraph
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Diski is one of the language's great, if under-appreciated, stylists
Guardian
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The appeal of Diski's essays was the appeal of Diski herself … brilliant, irritable, mordant, and humane
Paris Review
























