Alfred and Emily - Brossura

Lessing, Doris

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ISBN 10: 0060834897 ISBN 13: 9780060834890

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.

"Here I still am," says Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

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In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.

"Here I still am," says Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060834897
• ISBN 13: 9780060834890
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile