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Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World
Skating to Antarctica A Journey to the End of the World
Author: Jenny Diski
"The one truly generous act of my mother's that I could really put my finger on: her leaving me alone."So writes Jenny Diski of the parent she has neither seen nor heard from since 1966, the year her father died.In search of an escape from her suicidal sexually abusive parents, Diski spends her teenage years in the oblivion of heavy drug ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780880016032
ISBN-10: 0880016035
Publication Date: 8/1998
Pages: 250
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Publisher: Ecco Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I had read Diski's non-fiction before, and liked it well enough to purchase this book. However, the memoir seems self-servingly cathartic, and the Antarctic observations superficial.
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