![]() ![]() ![]() Memorable girls and women-damaged, truculent, curious, stalwart-occupy Diski’s pages, claiming space, agency, and well-deserved attention. A teenager’s mother matter-of-factly talks blow jobs and doing drugs with her 13-year-old. A housewife enjoys a “filthy” affair, even as “life went on as normal.” A toddler’s mother goes on a Caribbean vacation only to realize her husband is a dull disappointment. A woman manifests her lifelong goal of the perfect, all-day bath. A writer has an afternoon tryst with a stranger after discussing the “leaper” who’s disrupted rush-hour subway traffic. A single story, “Strictempo,” gets plainly autobiographical as it portrays a 15-year-old expelled from boarding school and returned to negligent parents. King,” as Diski alchemizes Rumpelstiltskin’s tale into “Shit and Gold,” a wicked feminist reclamation. WITH A PREFACE BY HEIDI JULAVITS, AUTHOR OF THE FOLDED CLOCK. ![]() Another royal becomes “Queen–meaning Mrs. Read 65 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. readers is her spectacular 1995 collection of bizarre-to-rueful-to-stunning stories, bookended by two princesses living (and reading) in towers: the titular “vanishing” princess, who learns about food, time, and mirrors and the “Old Princess,” whose long life is spent waiting. She spends her days reading books, with the occasional glance through the window at a world which does not interest her. In fact, she has never even considered it. We can’t call her imprisoned as she has never attempted to leave. Although Diski is renowned across the pond, her defiant treatise against her terminal cancer, In Gratitude, published just before her 2016 death is, ironically, what earned her substantial stateside acclaim. Review: The Vanishing Princess by Jenny Diski Meridian A princess lives in a tower. ![]()
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