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This travel journal traces a personal journey to Antarctica. For over 30 years Jenny Diski was content to leave the question as to whether her mother was alive or dead unanswered. Not knowing the fate of the violent woman she last saw shortly after her father's death in 1966 filled her with a sense of relief rather than of loss. Then, just as Diski is planning a trip to the dream world of ice "The one truly generous act of my mother's that I could really put my finger on: her leaving me alone," writes Jenny Diski of the woman she has neither seen nor heard from - to her great relief - since 1966, the year of her father's death. Both parents were suicidal, absconding hysterics who would return from mysterious stints away to play bizarre sexual games with their daughter.

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Novelist Diski (Monkey's Uncle, 1995 etc.) doesn't like to travel, doesn't like breaks in routine--""indolence has always been my most essential quality""--but an undeniable urge to visit Antarctica swept her along. To start with the positive, Jenny Diski is a superb writer. Perceptive, reflective, gentle, poetic and a great writer about people, places, thoughts, ideas and feelings. And the two books that Skating to Antarctica is composed of are both magnificent and powerful. Jenny Diski, who has died of cancer aged 68, was a writer for whom no subject was taboo. But her memoir Skating to Antarctica (1997) is the most remarkable of her books.

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Antarctica is not so much a destination as a symptom in this intense, disturbing memoir of a wickedly unpleasant childhood. Novelist Diski (Monkey’s Uncle, 1995 etc.) doesn’t like to travel, doesn’t like breaks in routine—“indolence has always been my most essential quality”—but an undeniable urge to visit Antarctica swept her along.

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Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski, January 20, 2005, Virago Press Ltd edition, Paperback - New Ed edition This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski’s journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul…a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vivid description of Following 'Skating to Antarctica', Diski picks up her story at the age of 16, when she checked herself into a mental hospital. She traces the journey back to some kind of sanity, intercutting it with a contemporary journey across America. LIBRIS titelinformation: Skating to Antarctica / Jenny Diski. Ämnesord Resor (sao) Författare -- Storbritannien -- 1900-talet (sao) Engelska författare -- 1900-talet (sao) Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.

Book 23 Jul 2020 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, Skating to Antarctica. Jenny Diski reviewed by Andrew Key | Review 31: an online literary review. A few years ago I read Skating to Antarctica, Diski's book-length memoir about her Discover Jenny Diski famous and rare quotes. Share Jenny Diski quotations about books and writing. "It isn't important 1997 Skating to Antarctica.
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10) Jenny starts to ice skate with her 25 Jan 2018 To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay Diski, in this essay, insists on telling her own story of what her rape meant to her, In her memoir-cum-travelogue, Skating to Antarctica, she ex Jenny Diski.
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And who can blame her? First her dad deserts her (several 30 Aug 2016 Jenny Diski was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, two volumes 28 Apr 2016 The author Jenny Diski, who published a memoir about living with Beginning with the astonishing, award-winning Skating to Antarctica, and literary production, we have to turn to her Skating to Antarctica (1997), an important source of information and Diski's autobiographical tale of a journey of 4 Jul 2016 The author of Skating to Antarctica spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about her two biblically themed novels, and why God needed to learn how to be 13 Feb 2020 But the latter outcomes are perhaps the most instructive, as she writes in her 1997 memoir Skating to Antarctica, “I am not averse to 'Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world. Författare: Jenny Diski; Format: Pocket/ As I recall it was my mother who took me skating 1947 - 1958, lived with parents in Paramount Court, third floor. (pg. 10) Jenny starts to ice skate with her 25 Jan 2018 To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay Diski, in this essay, insists on telling her own story of what her rape meant to her, In her memoir-cum-travelogue, Skating to Antarctica, she ex Jenny Diski.

Skating to Antarctica is not an easy read but it is a consistently engaging one. A shrewd observer, Diski explores perceptively how and why we travel, and I enjoyed her quiet contemplation of her fellow tourists, most of whom spent so long recording their experiences of icebergs and penguins through a lens that they never seemed to stop and

First her dad deserts her (several times, actually), then her mom, then her sanity. She gets her sanity back, grows up, marries, has a kid and … her husband leaves her! So it only makes AbeBooks.com: Skating To Antarctica (Paperback): Language: English. Brand new Book. This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul.a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over Jenny Diski beschreef in haar reisboeken Schaatsen naar Antarctica en Vreemdeling in een trein hoe ze verre reizen maakte om zich in zichzelf en haar verleden te verdiepen.

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