Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 -1962 - Rilegato

Lessing, Doris

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ISBN 10: 0002558610 ISBN 13: 9780002558617

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1997

Riassunto

Doris Lessing’s long-awaited follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, the hugely successful Under My Skin.

In Walking in the Shade we move into the dazzling heyday of Lessing’s career, sparked off by the international success of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in 1950.

A wonderful evocation of London’s literary and political life during the 1950s and 1960s. Doris Lessing was at the very centre of the intellectual scene at that time and knew many of its personalities and opinion-makers – Kenneth Tynan, John Osborne, E.P. Thompson, Bertrand Russell and others.

Perhaps the most open and frank books Lessing has ever written. She writes about her love affairs, her depression at the ending of an important relationship and her experience of bringing up a child on her own.

Doris Lessing describes the genesis of her novel, The Golden Notebook – perhaps her greatest work, certainly her most popular – in great detail.

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Recensione:

From the reviews of Under My Skin:

‘Immediate, vivid, beautifully paced. By putting her life on the page, she has created her greatest work of art.’
Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books

‘Passionate and compelling, a book so packed with extraordinary images that it has obliterated almost everything else I read in 1994.’
Rose Tremain

L'autore:

Doris Lessing is one of the most radical, provocative and diverse writers of the modern age. ‘A major figure in twentieth century literature, her labours and prodigious output have helped to change the way we see ourselves.’ Michele Roberts, New Statesman

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0002558610
• ISBN 13: 9780002558617
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400