On Trying to Keep Still
Author(s): Jenny Diski
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; her childhood desire for 'a condition', thoughts about growing older, spiders, fundamentalism and the problems of keeping warm.
General Information
- :
- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.254012
- : 01 March 2007
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jenny Diski
- : Paperback
- : 01
- : English
- : 320