Skating to Antarctica
Diski, Jenny2005
Book
Total copies: 17
Sardonically funny and moving, Skating to Antarctica is a book about a journey into darkness and light, the colour white, fantasy and memory, families and sanity. 'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?) This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica, 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 the natural world. While Diski's writing is laconic, her images are haunting.
Main title:
Skating to Antarctica / Jenny Diski.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 2005.
Collation:
240 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Granta, 1997.
Awards:
MIND book award
ISBN:
9781844081516 (pbk)
Dewey class:
919.8904
LC class:
G850
Language:
English
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BRN:
157447