Jenny Diski (1947–2016)

Autor/a de Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

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Jenny Diski was born Jenny Simmonds on July 8, 1947. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an English teacher. Her first novel, Nothing Natural, was published in 1986. During her lifetime, she wrote eleven novels, two collections of short stories, memoirs, travelogues, and essays. Her non-fiction works included Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train, and The Sixties. She also wrote columns in the London Review of Books. All of the columns she wrote about her diagnosis with inoperable cancer were collected in In Gratitude. She died of cancer on April 28, 2016 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions … (més)

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Obres de Jenny Diski

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with… 297 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World 263 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

Nothing Natural 202 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

In Gratitude 137 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books 98 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

On Trying to Keep Still 97 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

The Vanishing Princess: Stories 90 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Apology for the Woman Writing 71 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Rainforest 59 exemplars

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays 58 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Only Human: A Divine Comedy 56 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Monkey's Uncle 48 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

What I don't know about animals 48 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Happily Ever After 45 exemplars

Like Mother 42 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Dream Mistress 40 exemplars

Then Again 30 exemplars

Don't 30 exemplars, 1 ressenya

After These Things 27 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

A View from the Bed and Other Observations 24 exemplars

Diski, Jenny Archive 1 exemplars

Leaper 1 exemplars

'Rhythm Method' in LRB 22 Sept 1994 1 exemplars

'It wasn't him, it was her' in LRB, 25/18, 25 Sept 2003 [review of… 1 exemplars

L'ora del bagno. Racconto 1 exemplars

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També de Jenny Diski

Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica (Col·laborador) 189 exemplars

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic… (Col·laborador) 115 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

Ein erotisches Lesebuch - Liebhabereien 2 exemplars

10x passie-vrouwen vertellen (Col·laborador) 1 exemplars

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Preferits dels membres

Membres: membre privat, CharlieLovesBooks, AnneMariaQ, piemouth, si, cetera_desunt, yesAna, missnattyj, charmian, withwill, wandering_star

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Jenny Diski té 3 esdeveniments ja passats. (show)

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Jenny Diski

London Review Bookshop, dimarts, gener 20, 2009 a les 7pm

Jenny Diski llegeix Apology for the Woman Writing.

Jenny Diski’s new novel Apology for the Woman Writing (Virago) is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with hellebore. When he died four years later, she became the editor and champion of his work and a professional writer herself. Diski is a novelist and essayist, and the author of several works of non-fiction, including the award-winning Stranger on a Train. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details) Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events Discounts for LRB subscribers - contact the shop on books@lrbshop.co.uk for details (FlossieT)… (més)

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Jenny Diski

Heffers Bookshop, dimarts, novembre 4, 2008 a les 6:30pm

Jenny Diski debat Apology for the Woman Writing.

The award-winning author of Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, Jenni Diski will be at Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street talking about her new novel Apology for the Woman Writing.

This is a ticketed event ONLY. Tickets are FREE and may be obtained from the Ground Floor Cash Desk at Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge or by contacting Richard Reynolds on 01223 568532. (ladycassilis)… (més)

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Janice Galloway in conversation with Jenny Diski

London Review Bookshop, dimecres, setembre 24, 2008 a les 7pm

Janice Galloway llegeix This is Not About Me.; Jenny Diski

Janice Galloway is one of Britain’s most celebrated and admired novelists, praised for her ability to depict imagined lives in all their complexities. She has turned this skill on herself for her first memoir, This is Not About Me (Granta), in which she writes about her first twelve years growing up on the west coast of Scotland in the shadow of her charismatic older sister, Cora. She will discuss the book with the writer and LRB contributor, Jenny Diski.

Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details)

Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events (FlossieT)… (més)

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