| Description |
240 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
"The one truly generous act of my mother's that I could really put my finger on: her leaving me alone," writes Jenny Diski of the woman she has neither seen nor heard from - to her great relief - since 1966, the year of her father's death. Both parents were suicidal, absconding hysterics who would return from mysterious stints away to play bizarre sexual games with their daughter. Life with them engendered in Diski a profound desire to escape into oblivion. As a teenager, oblivion meant heavy drug use and the white of psychiatric wards; as an adult the boundless, blank iciness of Antarctica becomes her imaginary, and ultimately her actual, haven. |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Granta, 1997 |
| Subject |
Diski, Jenny -- Travel -- Antarctica.
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Mothers and daughters -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Antarctic Regions -- Description and travel.
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| Reading List |
ALL381 prescribed text 2021
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ALL381 prescribed text 2020
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ALL151 prescribed text 2019
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ALL381 prescribed text 2019
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
1844081516 paperback |
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