Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
Autor Jenny Diskien Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2003
Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312422622
ISBN-10: 0312422628
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 140 x 217 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Picador Pbk.
Editura: Picador USA
ISBN-10: 0312422628
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 140 x 217 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Picador Pbk.
Editura: Picador USA
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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?)
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.
'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?)
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.
Recenzii
Her writing is sensitive, sincere and sparkling.
(Diski's) near-erotic musings on the dreaded weed almost made me want to take up smoking again. And that's saying something.
Beautifully written
(Diski's) near-erotic musings on the dreaded weed almost made me want to take up smoking again. And that's saying something.
Beautifully written