Skating To Antarctica
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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"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?)
This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul. A book of dazzling variety, it weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative of caustic observation and vivid description of the natural world.
While Diski's writing is laconic, her images are haunting.
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