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Under My Skin Vol. 1 : Volume One of My Autobiography, To 1949 by Doris Lessing (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060926643
ISBN-139780060926649
eBay Product ID (ePID)18993
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnder My Skin Vol. 1 : Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPhilosophers, Women, Women Authors, Adventurers & Explorers
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorDoris Lessing
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-020051
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsCompelling reading...Readers familiar with Doris Lessing's work will savor her self-revelations in Under My Skin flavored with her characteristic wry tone., Extraordinary. . . Eloquent. . . Lessing recounts this passage in her life with complex candor...[and] with the vividness of a fine novelist., "Absorbing...Arouses our cheers and sympathy...Her work is cathartic and exhilarating." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Compelling reading...Readers familiar with Doris Lessing's work will savor her self-revelations in Under My Skin flavored with her characteristic wry tone." -- Chicago Tribune Books "Extraordinary. . . Eloquent. . . Lessing recounts this passage in her life with complex candor...[and] with the vividness of a fine novelist." -- New York Times Book Review "Lessing summons the girl from half a century ago with such freshness and immediacy that she seems alive today." -- Ms. magazine "One of the 20th century's most important and influential novelist here presents a memoir as probing, unsparing and darkly funny as her fiction." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Reminds us of what an autobiography can do in the hands of a master." -- Washington Post Book World, Lessing summons the girl from half a century ago with such freshness and immediacy that she seems alive today., One of the 20th century's most important and influential novelist here presents a memoir as probing, unsparing and darkly funny as her fiction.
Dewey Decimal823.9/14
Synopsis"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., "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.
LC Classification NumberPR6015.I3
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