The Vanishing Princess: Stories

by Jenny Diski

Book Overview

"Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski's is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the forest for others to follow." -- Vanity Fair

*Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017*

WITH A PREFACE BY HEIDI JULAVITS, AUTHOR OF THE FOLDED CLOCK

The only story collection from the beloved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062685716
• ISBN13: 9780062685711
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

UNIQUE

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...