Why Didn¿t You Just Do What You Were Told? av Jenny Diski

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<b>Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism</b><b>¿Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny¿ <i>Sunday Times</i></b><b>''Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise'' Emilia Clarke</b><b>¿She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be¿ <i>New Yorker</i></b>Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own cancer diagnosis. Her columns in the <i>London Review of Books</i> ¿ selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, on subjects as various as death, motherhood, sexual politics and the joys of solitude ¿ have been described as ¿virtuoso performances¿, and ¿small masterpieces¿. From Highgate Cemetery to the interior of a psychiatric hospital, from Tottenham Court Road to the icebergs of Antarctica, <i>Why Didn¿t You Just Do What You Were Told?</i> is a collective interrogation of the universal experience from a very pa