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Sto caricando le informazioni... In Gratitude (2016)di Jenny Diski
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Interesting story of life with Doris Lessing in the mid to late 20th century, and thought provoking writing about dying with lung cancer. ( ) Beautifully written memoir which covers Diski's tumultuous adolescence (spent partly as the unofficial foster daughter of Doris Lessing) and her cancer treatment fifty years later. Perhaps strangely, I found myself more interested in her account of enduring radiation and chemo and coming to grips with the end of her life than in her more eventful teenage years. (However, if you are interested in Doris Lessing Diski's remembrances of her will hold your attention.) Definitely worth the read. Well, I love memoirs and diaries and medical writing and reading about other people's cancer and (most of) Doris Lessing's books, but I had a hard time with this. I understand that with an incurable cancer diagnosis, arduous debilitating treatment, and an early life living with a very difficult famous writer, some bitterness is to be expected, but the title belies all of this. She's angry and belligerent but seems oddly unaware of this. I suppose I should read some of her other books to understand her better. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the cliches and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at age fifteen by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. In the pages of the London Review of Books , to which Diski contributed for the last quarter century, she unraveled her history with Lessing: the fairy-tale rescue as a teenager, the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family, the modeling of a literary life. Swooping from one memory to the next-alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, the drug-taking twenty-something in and out of psychiatric hospitals -- and telling all through the lens of living with terminal cancer, through what she knows will be her final months, Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers -- Lessing and herself. From a wholly original thinker comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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