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On Trying to Keep Still

Paperback • 2007 • English

On Trying to Keep Still

By Jenny Diski

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About the book

Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski, fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her ramblings both mental and physical hoping as he did in time to make her mind ashamed of itself. Interspersed with ill-tempered descriptions of these trips are digressions on the subject of her sore foot;...Show more

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ISBN

9781844080168

Publisher

Virago Press Ltd

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

On Trying to Keep Still

Format

Paperback

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