The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.
Doris Lessing’s autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase.
It charts the evolution first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and challenging as anything she has ever written.
It is already recognised as one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.
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‘Passionate and compelling, a book so packed with extraordinary images that it has obliterated almost everything else I read in 1994.’ Rose Tremain
‘In this immediate, vivid, beautifully paced memoir, Doris Lessing sets the individual against history, the personal against the general and shows, by the example of her life set down honestly, how biography and fiction mesh, how fiction transmutes the personal to the general, how the particular experience illuminates the universe. By putting her life on the page, she has created her greatest work of art.’ Hilary Mantel, LRB
‘The book pulsates with life. The intensity of the sensory world is brilliantly evoked ... Not just the story of the first thirty years of one life, this is the biography also of an age.’ Jane Dunn, Observer
Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.
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Descrizione libro Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager, Sofortversand - Doris Lessing schreibt hier über die ersten dreißig Jahre ihres Lebens, über die Kindheit im Iran, auf der elterlichen Farm im ehemaligen Südrhodesien und über die Zeit, die sie als junge Frau in Salisbury, der Hauptstadt der britischen Kronkolonie, verbrachte. 'Wir sehen unser Leben in jeder Phase unterschiedlich.', sagt Doris Lessing, 'wenn ich dieses Buch mit Dreißig geschrieben hätte, wäre es ein ziemlich aggressives Dokument geworden. Mit Vierzig ein Aufschrei der Verzweiflung, voller Schuldgefühle. Jetzt blicke ich mit wachsender Distanz und Neugier zurück auf das Kind, das Mädchen, die junge Frau.'. Codice articolo INF1000293395