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2005-01-20 Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years.Diski was educated at University College London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.. Diski was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the 2016-04-28 Editions for Skating to Antarctica: 1844081516 (Paperback published in 2005), 0060957964 (Paperback published in 2001), 1862070490 (Paperback published i Skating to Antarctica. [Jenny Diski] -- Sardonically funny and moving, Skating to Antarctica is a book about a journey into darkness and light, the colour white, fantasy and memory, families and sanity. Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search.

Free delivery worldwide on Skating To Antarctica · Jenny Diski. Skating to Antarctica av Jenny Diski Jag tror att det här är den första av Jenny Diskis böcker som är både reseskildring och memoarer. Tidigare har jag läst Jenny Diski På tunn is - en resa till Antarktis (Skating to Antarctica) övers: Meta Ottosson 240 s. AlfabetaAnamma. CA 247:- När ”Skating to Rachel Aspden on Jenny Diski's oddly blank railway travelogue, Stranger the snowy wastes of Diski's earlier memoir, Skating to Antarctica. Following 'Skating to Antarctica', Diski picks up her story at the age of 16, when she checked herself into a mental hospital. She traces the journey back to some Utförlig titel: På tunn is, en resa till Antarktis, Jenny Diski; Originaltitel: Skating to Antarctica; Serie: Alfabeta pocket.

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Her 1997 memoir Skating to Antarctica, ostensibly about a journey to see the Antarctic ice, also tells much about Diski's early life. Kirkus Reviews comments that " Antarctica is not so much a destination as a symptom in this intense, disturbing memoir of a wickedly unpleasant childhood." As an adult she finds a new haven: the boundless, blank iciness of Antarctica where everything "is colored white and filled with a singing silence."This blistering account interweaves the story of the author's journey to the end of the earth, her daughter's search for Diski's missing mother, and Diski's own search of her memory-hardened heart.

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Read 77 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journ Skating To Antarctica (Paperback). This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey e-Book Download SKATING TO ANTARCTICA by Jenny Diski pdf. e-Book Download The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Concise by Paul S. Explore books by Jenny Diski with our selection at Waterstones.com. Click and Collect from your local Skating To Antarctica (Paperback). Added to basket.

Alltid bra priser, fri frakt från 229 kr och snabb leverans. | Adlibris Skating to Antarctica therefore has a fragility to it, but it's a fragility told by a writer who's managed to weather many storms and isn't going to give up just yet. Superficially the memoir's about the author taking a cruise in a converted icebreaker to the southern continent; but under the guise of a travelogue this account focuses on a journey of a different kind. I borrowed Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica from the library, as I have wanted to read her work for ages.
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CA 247:- När ”Skating to Antarctica” utkom för sju år sedan tog jag den först för en traditionell reseskildring om den stora vita kontinenten i söder. I actually had other recommendations of Antarctica-based travelogues for my reading list, including the books of Sara Wheeler, but as my curiosity had been piqued by the great acclaim lauded on Jenny DIski, and I decided there was only really room for one Antarctica title on my list, I plumped for Skating to Antarctica. Skating To Antarctica goes to may places but the journey is far more about the journey than the destination. Mental health, depression, childhood, writing: these are Diski's subjects.

Title: Skating to Antarctica Author(s): Jenny Diski ISBN: 1-86207-016-4 / 978-1-86207-016-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Skating to Antarctica by Diski, Jenny and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski, January 20, 2005, Virago Press Ltd edition, Paperback - New Ed edition This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski’s journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul…a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vivid description of Following 'Skating to Antarctica', Diski picks up her story at the age of 16, when she checked herself into a mental hospital. She traces the journey back to some kind of sanity, intercutting it with a contemporary journey across America.
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Both journeys begin for Diski when her 18-year-old daughter Chloe decides to search for the maternal grandmother she has never met. "The one truly generous act of my mother's that I could really put my finger on: her leaving me alone," writes Jenny Diski of the woman she has neither seen nor heard from - to her great relief - since 1966, the year of her father's death.