Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays - By Jenny Diski
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Choose the pursuit of happiness if you really must, but there are better things to do with a life, unless freedom from difficulty is the only acceptable existence.
Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'.
Original, opinionated and well ahead of her time, this collection will allow readers old and new to 'read Diski for the pleasures of Diski, but also read Diski to learn what we may think, in the future, about how, were we possessed by foresight, we might have better performed our humanity in the now' (New Yorker)
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Format: Paperback
Published: 2020
Category: Hardback
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 222 x 145mm
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