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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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Moving day
- Good Housekeeping
- He could afford it
- Stinker
- Th natural death centre
- Sweetie pies
- A feeling for ice
- The girl in the attic
- Mrs Straus's devotion
- Did Jesus walk on water because he couldn't swim?
- Perfectly human
- Stinking rich
- My little lollipop
- Don't think about it
- Fashion as art
- It wasn't him, it was her
- XXX
- Mirror images
- My word, Miss Perkins
- The housekeeper of a world-shattering theory
- The Friendly spider programme
- Tunnel vision
- Not enjoying herself
- Staying awake
- The Khugistic scandal
- Toxic lozenges
- Never mainline
- Which one of you is Jesus?
- Zeitgeist man
- I haven't been nearly mad enough
- However I smell
- Post-its, push pins, pencils
- A diagnosis.