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' poignant and beautifully written ... a profound and unsettling account of alienation' PETER PARKER presenting the J R Ackerley Award for Autobiography to JENNY DISKI 'Beautifully written' Times 'More like a memoir than a travelogue: a magical history tour' Sunday Telegraph
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A fascinating, elegantly written and often profound account of two odysseys by train around the vast emptiness of America
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is NOT a travel book! This is people watching by words - in her unmistakeable individual style Jenny Diski 'talks' to you on such a level that you often feel like her thoughts are actually yours and you forget you are reading at all! I read this book on holiday and came home feeling more like I had been on a train in the USA for a week than on a beach! Her reminicenses of her past are touching and poignant. You finish this book feeling like this excentric, rather neurotic lady is your friend, and her journey, yours. A highly addictive book, I would recommend this to anyone who has ever found themselves transfixed by the actions of a complete stranger, no matter how mundane they may be.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Again, this book shows Jenny Diski's ability to tell a vivid, real life account, whil mixing in memories from her youth. She manages to see the positive in both cases and reminds us to learn from every experience. She inspires me to take time out to daydream and to keep an open mind.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Loved this. Picked it up at random in the library and as soon as I finished it I went back to borrow Nothing Natural which I enjoyed just as much! There was something in both books that really spoke to me. Am about to start reading Like Mother, hope it's just as good!
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novel autobiography
I read this because it was recommended by my creative writing tutor, we were doing a unit on autobiography and she read some of it in a tutorial. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ms. R. Austin
Rocking, rolling, riding
Author Jenny Diski, for reasons best known to herself, decides to tour the circumference of America (or more or less; there's a big gap in the west coast) by train. Read more
Published 10 months ago by phoebes_mum
the art of writing is not dead
If you despair of modern writers and their lack of style; weep no more. This book is a wonderful piece of writing and is unputdownable (sic).
Published on 27 Sep 2008 by J. E. Holmes
Very poor not a great Travel Book
This is the first book I've read by Jenni Diski, and I'm told its not typical of her work. Certainly this was disappointing. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2004 by Keith Appleyard
Plain & Heavy
The idea was brand-new, I'd love to go on such a train (and ship) myself after reading this book. But I really can't appreciate her tone of writing - boring, hopeless and old, and... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2004 by yiwen hao
Innovative take on the Travel Book genre
This book is worth the cover price alone for the author's description of the smoking-room encounters on board the various trains that she travels on. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2002 by J. Stack
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