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Why didn't you just do what you were told? : essays / Jenny Diski ; [introduction by Mary-Kay Wilmers].

by Diski, Jenny, author.

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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

English essays -- 20th century.

9781526621900 (hardcover) :

1526621908 (hardcover)

vi, 432 pages ; 23 cm

Moving day -- Good Housekeeping -- He could afford it -- Stinker -- Th natural death centre -- Sweetie pies -- A feeling for ice -- The girl in the attic -- Mrs Straus's devotion -- Did Jesus walk on water because he couldn't swim? -- Perfectly human -- Stinking rich -- My little lollipop -- Don't think about it -- Fashion as art -- It wasn't him, it was her -- XXX -- Mirror images -- My word, Miss Perkins -- The housekeeper of a world-shattering theory -- The Friendly spider programme -- Tunnel vision -- Not enjoying herself -- Staying awake -- The Khugistic scandal -- Toxic lozenges -- Never mainline -- Which one of you is Jesus? -- Zeitgeist man -- I haven't been nearly mad enough -- However I smell -- Post-its, push pins, pencils -- A diagnosis.

"Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult, even her own diagnosis with cancer. Her columns in the London Review of Books--selected here by her editor and friend Mary-Kay Wilmers, ranged from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats--have been described as 'virtuoso performances', and 'small masterpieces'"--Publisher.

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