- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (8 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297840622
- ISBN-13: 978-0297840626
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,361,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a collection of stories. They move between differing locations - Caribbean paradises, seedy apartments, fairytale towers - and explore subjects contemporary and complex.
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Format:Paperback
Each one of the unusual stories in this collection is a page turner, and at least one of them might make your ears burn, too. There's an interesting take on what makes one woman tick (Peter Greenaway would have loved this one); both Rapunzel and Rumplestiltskin are presented in a new light; yet another story looks at the workings of an institution. In all, there are twelve texts, and it's hard to tell which one is the best, or the quirkiest.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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9 April 2001
Format:Paperback
THE VANISHING PRINCESS - my first book by Jenny Diski, and it remained one of my favourites. When two men "invent" cubism before it actually came into existance, when a girl commits suicide on a tube station and a passer-by suddenly finds herself in an affair with the girl's ex-lover, when someone is obsessed with bath rooms and a princess makes Rumpel Stiltz forget his name...you're into a Jenny-Diski-book. Her unique way of describing things from points of view you would maybe never have thought of is just amazing. And so is her humour...
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