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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Main Author: Diski, Jenny (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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