Jenny Diski: 8 books

Book cover of The Vanishing Princess
by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski—darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time
Book cover of The Sixties
by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

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 Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating,...
Book cover of In Gratitude
by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review From "one...
Book cover of Stranger on a Train

Stranger on a Train

Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation's smoking sections 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...
Book cover of Apology For The Woman Writing
by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

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...
Book cover of Lo que no sé de los animales
by Jenny Diski
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 5, 2017

¿Qué sabe Jenny Diski de los animales? Como no estaba muy segura, empezó a escribir este libro: nuestra relación y actitud hacia los animales merecen una reflexión. Y en Lo que no sé de los animales demuestra el porqué. En su investigación, Diski recuerda los animales de peluche de su infancia,...
Book cover of Only Human

Only Human

A Divine Comedy

by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

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 soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of duty He found dull. God resolves for a third...
Book cover of What I Don't Know About Animals
by Jenny Diski
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

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