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The Memoirs of a Survivor
Doris Lessing
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Description for The Memoirs of a Survivor
Paperback. A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB; YQEF. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and left ... Read more
A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and left ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006493259
SKU
V9780006493259
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Ref
99-2
About Doris Lessing
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Memoirs of a Survivor
'Original and astonishing ... Brilliant persuasive and circumstantial in its imagination, so that each step towards barbarism seems completely necessary.' New Statesman 'For some years and books now [we] have been reading Doris Lessing to find out what's going on - what is happening to ... Read more