Stranger On A Train
Daydreaming and Smoking Around America
$38.16
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2004
Summary
In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television.
Like the pulse of the train over the rails, the theme of the dying pleasures of smoking thrums through the book, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860499951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860499953 |
| Author: | Jenny Diski |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 131mm x 200mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
Her writing is sensitive, sincere and sparkling.
Her writing is sensitive, sincere and sparkling. - Morning Star
(Diski’s) near-erotic musings on the dreaded weed almost made me want to take up smoking again. And that’s saying something. - Irish TimesBeautifully written - TimesAbout The Author
Jenny Diski
Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London where she has lived most of her life. She recently moved to Cambridge. She is the author of eight novels and an acclaimed memoir and her journalism has appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, amongst others.
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