On Trying to Keep Still
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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84408-016-8
- EAN: 9781844080168
- Produktnummer: 20640720
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.2 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels including ONLY HUMAN and AFTER THESE THINGS plus two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge.
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