Alfred and Emily - Rilegato

Lessing, Doris May

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ISBN 10: 0060834889 ISBN 13: 9780060834883

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

A deeply personal meditation on family, parents and children, war and memory takes the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led in the wake of the devastation of the Great War. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“An intriguing work . . . [that] shimmers with precisely remembered details.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“An odd and powerful excursion into lost time. . . . a powerful reminder not only of Lessing’s past but also of how each of us can return to our own and come back with something precious.” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)

“Alfred and Emily reveals why Lessing deserved literature’s highest honor. There is a remarkable level of courage, honesty, and wisdom in Alfred and Emily. . . . Lessing, nearing 90, continues to surprise.” (USA Today)

“A stirring exploration . . . gently yet deeply moving” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“She has never displayed her potent imagination to better effect, or her gift for probing realism . . . a profoundly moving memoir and portrait of a marriage.” (Wall Street Journal)

“A clever, moving coupling of fiction and nonfiction. ALFRED & EMILY is...a testament to [Lessing’s] ongoing literary vitality.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Lessing’s taste for discomfiting truths is as evident as ever...as bracing and engaging as anything she has written.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Laced with the subtlest of observations and the wryest of wit...This unusual marriage of fiction and memoir (and family photographs) results in a book at once spellbinding, rueful, and tragic.” (Booklist (starred review))

“A truly intriguing piece of work...the book is also an interesting glimpse of an empire and an era.” (Christian Science Monitor)

L'autore:

Doris Lessing was born in 1919. Her first novel, THE GRASS IS SINGING, was published in 1950, and since then she has gone on to publish more than fifty books. Having been made A Companion of Honour and A Companion of Literature, she has been awarded the David Cohen Memorial Prize, Spain s Prince of Asturias Prize, the International Catalunya Award and the S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime s Distinguished Service to Literature. In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in North London.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060834889
• ISBN 13: 9780060834883
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274