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  title info:
    title: In gratitude
  name:
    name part: Diski, Jenny
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 250 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Doris and me -- Chemo and me -- Spray it silver.
  note: Jenny Diski.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Diski, Jenny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Diski, Jenny
    topic: Health
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lessing, Doris
      name part: 1919-2013
  subject:
    topic: Cancer
    topic: Patients
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
  classification: RC265.6.D57 A3 2016
  classification: 362.169940092
  identifier: 1632866862
  identifier: 9781632866868
  identifier: 9781408879917
  identifier: 1408879913
  identifier: 9781408879900
  identifier: 1408879905
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 160302
    record change date: 20170926153028.0
    record identifier: in00003825664