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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

Penned By Jenny Diski
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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

Penned By Jenny Diski
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A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, selected London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Review of Books selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude have been described as "virtuoso performances," and "small masterpieces."From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very particular psyche: original, opinionated and mordantly funny.

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Length 432 Pages
Language Eng
Released July 23, 2020
Identifier (ISBN) 54486819
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