On the Beach
Jenny Diski: Privacy, 28 July 2011
Islands of Privacy
by Christena Nippert-Eng.
Chicago, 404 pp., £14.50, October 2010,978 0 226 58653 3 Show More
by Christena Nippert-Eng.
Chicago, 404 pp., £14.50, October 2010,
“... Christena Nippert-Eng loves the beach in spite of the noise, the bugs, the pebbles, the filth and the fact that her dermatologist insists she wear factor-60 sunscreen from April to October. It’s a nexus thing for her and she is quite lyrical about it. The beach is a place where all manner of stuff comes together, juxtaposed ‘in the most enchanting of ways … Creatures that walk, creatures that fly and creatures that swim intermingle here, scaring, fascinating, feeding and amusing each other ... ”