Walking in the Shade: My Autobiography, 1949-1962 - Hardcover

Lessing, Doris May

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060182954 ISBN 13: 9780060182953

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

In the second volume of her autobiography, Lessing details her membership in the Communist Party in London, her bohemian lifestyle in the 1950s, views on relationships, attitudes of men toward women, love, and sex, and profiles of such famous as people as Nelson Algren, Henry Kissinger, and others.

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Review:

"You can't help but admire her independence of thought and feeling and her willingness to ovberturn all the precepts upon which her very existence has been predicted."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review""Justifies by her extraordinary variety of her achievements, her exceptional memory and her facility as a writer."-- "New York Times Book Review""The life she describes is heroric...yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel."-- "San Francisco Chronical""The story couldn't be better told. She is there, marvelously urgent, translucently sincere--Doris Lessing in person."-- "Washington Post Book World"

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060182954
• ISBN 13: 9780060182953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404