The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches - Hardcover

Lessing, Doris May

 
9780060168537: The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches

Synopsis

The author of The Golden Notebook presents a collection of stories centered around London and featuring tales of a mother and daughter's reconciliation, a couple arguing over their daughter's independence, and a pregnant girl. 25,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

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Review

"A rich portrait of contemporary London...As always, Lessing expertly deciphers the complex relationships that characterize modern life.""-- New York Times Book Review""Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both pitiless and compassionate." -- Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times""The most accessible and lyrical of [Doris Lessing's] books, it registers the pulse of a modern metropolis." -- Robert Taylor, "Boston Globe""["The Real Thing"] showcases the uncompromising realism that first won Doris Lessing fame...A real treat for Lessing Fans." -- Wendy Smith, "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

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Publisher: HarperCollins, 1993
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