In Gratitude Paperback / softback
by Jenny Diski
Paperback / softback
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_______________'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman' - Helen Davies, Sunday Times'She deserves our unfeigned admiration, not for her bravery or her struggle, or any irrelevant tosh like that, but for writing so well' - Guardian_______________In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live.
Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship.
Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself. Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude.
A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:09/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781408879948
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:09/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781408879948