Stranger on a Train

Zusatztext Beautifully written Informationen zum Autor Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London where she has lived most of her life. She recently moved to Cambridge. She is the author of eight novels and an acclaimed memoir and her journalism has appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, amongst others. Klappentext Follows the prize-winning memoir, "Skating To Antartica". Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train, where she meets all kind of characters with stories to tell. "Beautifully written" "The Times" Zusammenfassung Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica. The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of travelling across America by train, surrounded by strangers.

Beautifully written

Préface

• Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica.
• The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of travelling across America by train, surrounded by strangers.

Auteur

Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London where she has lived most of her life. She recently moved to Cambridge. She is the author of eight novels and an acclaimed memoir and her journalism has appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, amongst others.

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Follows the prize-winning memoir, "Skating To Antartica". Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train, where she meets all kind of characters with stories to tell. "Beautifully written" "The Times"

Résumé

• Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica. * The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of travelling across America by train, surrounded by strangers.