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In gratitude / Jenny Diski

By Doris , Diski , Jenny;Enright , Anne;Lessing

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN
9781408879948, 1408879948
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
502 kB (513694 bytes)
Edition
Paperback edition
Pages
xvii, 264 pages ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1919-2013;DiskiCancer--Patients;Cancer--Patients--Great Britain;HDorisJenny -- Health;Cancer -- Patients -- Great BritaiJenny;Lessing

Description

"In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience -- and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers -- Lessing and herself. Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude. A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece."--Page [4] of cover.

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