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26%OFFJenny Diski - Stranger on a Train - 9781860499951 - V9781860499951
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Stranger on a Train

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Description for Stranger on a Train Paperback. * Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica. * The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of travelling across America by train, surrounded by strangers. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.

'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?)

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860499951
SKU
V9781860499951
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99

About 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.

Reviews for Stranger on a Train
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 Times
Beautifully written
Times

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