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Stranger On A Train Jenny Diski

Stranger On A Train By Jenny Diski

Stranger On A Train by Jenny Diski


$15.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

* 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.

Stranger On A Train Summary

Stranger On A Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America by Jenny Diski

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, along with reflections on the condition of solitude and the nature of friendship and memories triggered by her past times in psychiatric hospitals. Cutting between her troubled teenaged years and contemporary America, the journey becomes a study of strangers, strangeness and estrangement - from oneself, as well as from the world.

Stranger On A Train Reviews

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 *

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.

Additional information

GOR001034043
9781860499951
1860499953
Stranger On A Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America by Jenny Diski
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2004-01-15
288
Winner of Thomas Cook Travel Awards 2003 (UK)
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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