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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.

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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."

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949

by Lessing, Doris

First Edition

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Book description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Doris Lessing is a prolific author. She has written numerous novels, series, short stories, opera, poetry, and non-fiction works. This autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 at the age of 30 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her suitcase. There are few modern autobiographies so revealing of the mind of their creator. This shows a woman uncompromising, from the beginning, in every aspect, who breaks all the rules, who battles at every turn against her upbringing and environment, who looks at the world clear and hard; and yet who also displays a softness, a wonderful sense of humor, a compassion for human failure. The jacket has shelf wear at the bottom edges. 419 pages, 16 pages of photographs, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bookseller: Nan's Book Shop (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 000668
Format/binding: Hard Bound, Cloth
Book condition: Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine
Quantity available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0060171502
ISBN 13: 9780060171506
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Place: New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date published: 1994
Pages: 419
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Keywords: LESSING DORIS MAY 1919 LITERARY CRITICISM WOMEN AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY HUMOR
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;

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