Under My Skin
My Autobiography to 1949
by Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing offers her autobiography up to the year 1949, from her childhood and adolescence in Rhodesia, to her first marriage and abandonment of her two children, her jettisoning of religion and adopting of political activism. Though autobiographical elements have always found a way into her fiction, here are the facts themselves.
Editions of Under My Skin
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1995 |
Price $2.85 |
 Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1994 |
Price $1.00 |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Wildside Pr |
Date 1995 |
Price None Available |
Publisher Notes
"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics, offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time.
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"...it may be Mrs. Lessing's most significant contribution that she has lived and written not with an eye to transcendence or posterity but to experiencing her own time most fully."
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