Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

by Jenny Diski

Book Overview

A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.

"She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New Yorker

Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526621908
• ISBN13: 9781526621900
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"