In this inventive retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, Diski (Skating to Antarctica) offers up a vain, "testy" God, who has created humanity in the hope of gaining insight into Himself. Instead, He feels shut out by his creations—w
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Jenny Diski, Author . Picador USA $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-28352-0
"I am not a travel writer in any reasonable sense of the word," Diski confesses. "I do not feel compelled to bring the world to people, or meet interesting characters, or enlarge my circle of acquaintance. I just want to drift in the...
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Jenny Diski, Author Ecco $23.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-88001-603-2
Only after learning the details of the author's upbringing will readers understand why she never contacted her mother after her father's death in 1966. Novelist Diski (Nothing Natural) was brought up in a London Jewish community, the only child of a
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Jenny Diski, Author Ecco Press $23.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-88001-611-7
The simultaneous search for separation and connection mark the conflicted characters' plight in British author Diski's (The Dream Mistress) evocatively textured eighth novel. One night in Camden Town, 46-year-old Mimi stumbles over a filthy homeless
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Jenny Diski, Author Simon & Schuster $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63459-9
A candid, intelligent and insightful portrayal of the sadomasochistic personality, Diski's sexually explicit first novel may nevertheless offend readers of delicate sensibilities. Diski describes the three-year relationship between Rachel Kee, a 31-y
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Jenny Diski, Author Picador USA $14 (148p) ISBN 978-0-312-42721-4
Like many other members of her generation, journalist and author Diski (On Trying to Keep Still) was drifting during the 1960s: she took drugs, had sex, and spent time in mental institutions in her attempts to subvert the Establishment. Cutting...
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Jenny Diski. Yale Univ., $26 (320p) ISBN 9780300176841
Don't be fooled by the title--British novelist, essayist, and memoirist Diski (Skating to Antarctica) knows quite a bit about animals. In this treatise, she tackles the unknowable: philosophical questions about animals' consciousness; what she...
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Jenny Diski . Bloomsbury, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63286-686-8
This revealingly raw memoir by British author Diski (What I Don't Know About Animals) about living with terminal cancer is even more poignant in light of her death on April 28, 2016, shortly before the book's U.S. publication. She spends time...
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Jenny Diski. Ecco, $15.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-268571-1
The dozen stories of this excellent posthumous collection look at isolation, anxiety, sex, the roles women play, and the attempts of men to define those roles, all from a female perspective. Three stories feature fairy tale heroines: two princesses...
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Jenny Diski. Bloomsbury, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5266-2190-0
This effortlessly readable posthumous essay collection from Diski (1947–2016) (In Gratitude) shows her at her best. In “A Feeling for Ice,” she writes about her troubled childhood and her longing to visit Antarctica: “I wanted white and ice as far...
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