In Gratitude

In Gratitude
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781408879948
ISBN-13 : 1408879948
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Book Synopsis In Gratitude by : Jenny Diski

Download or read book In Gratitude written by Jenny Diski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ '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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