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Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Doris Lessing
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Hardcover. Very good copies in dustwrapper.. First uk edition's . Signed by the author on Volume 1
This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through "an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa". Being lifted high up onto her father's horse, watching ostriches high-stepping over the empty distances of the Cape, travelling in ox carts to the new African farm with trunks full of Liberty material and English silver - so begins Doris Lessing's childhood. Born in 1919, into the aftermath of World War I, ... Read more
This first part of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers her African childhood and youth, her involvement in communist politics, and her departure for England and a new life. It is a self-portrait of a woman who lived through "an extraordinary time, the end of the British Empire in Africa". Being lifted high up onto her father's horse, watching ostriches high-stepping over the empty distances of the Cape, travelling in ox carts to the new African farm with trunks full of Liberty material and English silver - so begins Doris Lessing's childhood. Born in 1919, into the aftermath of World War I, ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780002555456
SKU
KEX0303066
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked ... Read more
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