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Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962

Author: Doris Lessing
SKU: 9780006388890

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The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. `Walking in the Shade’ begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel. With humour and clear-sightedness, she records her battles of the next decade: her involvement with communism, her love affairs, her struggle with poverty, the difficulties she faced as a young single mother.

But as well there is the success of that first novel, `The Grass Is Singing’, and meetings with personalities and opinion-makers – Kenneth Tynan, John Osborne, Bertrand Russell and others.Describing, too, the genesis of `The Golden Notebook’, this book sees Lessing emerge as one of the most exciting, and groundbreaking, novelists of the post-war generation, and one of the twentieth century’s great writers.

  • Classifications: English,
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 400 pages, 28 bw plates (12pp)

ISBN : 9780006388890

Published : 5 May 1998

Author : Doris Lessing

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers

Size : 198 x 129 (mm)

Weight : 270g

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