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The Birthday Boys . and Mental Illness in Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica . helt enkelt böcker om att vara Jenny Diski: "I start with me and often enough end with me." De tidigare är "Skating to Antarctica - A journey to Materialtyp: TextFörläggare:Stockholm : AlfabetaAnamma, 2004Beskrivning: 240 s.ISBN:9150103482.Uniforma titlar: Skating to Antarctica Ämnen: Diski, Jenny Jenny Diski, författare till Främling på tåg : hur jag, med vissa avbrott, dagdrömde och rökte mig…, på LibraryThing. Jenny Diski Like Mother. 1988.

Several of my friends here on Goodreads rave about her. This is the singular tome which she has written that appealed to me the most, a travelogue about her journey to Antarctica. - Independent on Sunday 'Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica, part traveller's tale, part autobiography, tells the story of a trip to Antarctica, interwoven with reminiscences of her dysfunctional family and daughter's quest to find what became of Diski's own long-lost mother. 'Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world. Författare: Jenny Diski Format: Pocket/Paperback 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. But do not be fooled by the reviews below; Diski is a very conscientious writer that deconstructs autobiography as she writes it.

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Novelist Diski (Monkey's Uncle, 1995 etc.) doesn't like to travel, doesn't like breaks in routine--""indolence has always been my most essential quality""--but an undeniable urge to visit Antarctica swept her along. To start with the positive, Jenny Diski is a superb writer. Perceptive, reflective, gentle, poetic and a great writer about people, places, thoughts, ideas and feelings.

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Jenny Diski. Granta Books, 1998 - British - 250 pages. 3 Reviews Skating to Antarctica. Jenny Diski. Virago, 2005 - Antarctica - 240 pages. 3 Reviews Skating to Antarctica is not an easy read but it is a consistently engaging one. A shrewd observer, Diski explores perceptively how and why we travel, and I enjoyed her quiet contemplation of her fellow tourists, most of whom spent so long recording their experiences of icebergs and penguins through a lens that they never seemed to stop and Antarctica is not so much a destination as a symptom in this intense, disturbing memoir of a wickedly unpleasant childhood.

Get this from a library! 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.
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privat läge). 256 sidor; 2005 'Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world. Skating to Antarctica: Diski, Jenny: 9781844081516: Books - Amazon.ca.
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Diski's book shines out for its wit, lack of self-pity and 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 Skating to Antarctica This travel journal traces a personal journey to Antarctica. For over 30 years Jenny Diski was content to leave the question as to whether her Skating to Antarctica. (Virago 1997). 'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her 2 Jan 1997 Jenny Diski remembers her childhood In the meantime, I called the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.