On Trying To Keep Still
$39.11
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2007
Summary
Now in B Format
From the award-winning, fabulously unique writer - comes a most unusual series of journeys from Lapland to New Zealand to Somerset. ‘A luminous, brilliantly witty account of the trials of seeking stillness’ – Joanna Kavenna, Telegraph
Jenny Diski’s attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski fails…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080168 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844080161 |
| Author: | Jenny Diski |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 159mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
While much of the collection revolves around Diski’s attempt to exercise her stupor to its fullest degree, there is nothing lazy about her writing. Combining philosophy with travelogue and personal memoir - in particular, memories of her difficult childhood - On Trying to Keep Still is unflaggingly engaging. It is also very funny - Sophie Ratcliffe in the New Statesman
Sometimes, as though she can’t help it, Diski slips very enjoyably into a travel-writer mode, but On Trying to Keep Still is really a voyage round the author’s head. It’s a brave and moving admission of a way of life that society isn’t geared up to cope - The HeraldDiski epitomises the pleasure of travelling alone… She seeks a mental inertia yet her book proves that, even when idling, the mind is always at work, remembering, recording, revising - Mark Sanderson, Sunday TelegraphThis is unique, and wholly wonderful - Stephanie Cross, Daily TelegraphJenny Diski
Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels including ONLY HUMAN and AFTER THESE THINGS plus two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge.
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