Why didn't you just do what you were told? : essays /
Choose the pursuit of happiness if you really must, but there are better things to do with a life, unless freedom from difficulty is the only acceptable existence. Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the London Revie...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2020.
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| Summary: | Choose the pursuit of happiness if you really must, but there are better things to do with a life, unless freedom from difficulty is the only acceptable existence. 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 Cemetary 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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| Physical Description: | vi, 432 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781526621900 1526621908 1526621940 9781526621948 |