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Stranger On A Train

- Daydreaming and Smoking Around America
Af: Jenny Diski Engelsk Paperback

Stranger On A Train

- Daydreaming and Smoking Around America
Af: Jenny Diski Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860499951
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1860499953
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 15 jan 2004
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 176mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 15 jan 2004
Forfatter(e): Jenny Diski
Forfatter(e) Jenny Diski

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9781860499951

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 176mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 15 jan 2004

Oplagsdato 15 jan 2004

Forlag Little, Brown Book Group