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Doris Lessing (1919-2013) left southern Africa in 1949 to make a new life in England. In this 'documentary' she gives a compelling account of her arrival in London, the working-class boarding house she lived in, her fellow residents and the joys and terrors of everyday life. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
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"One of the most authentic books ever written about the English....Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages.""-- San Francisco Chronicle""Eloquent...Wry and ribald...[Lessing's] impressive gifts for characterization and dialogue, her skill as a raconteur and her tartly humorous style combine to make "In Pursuit of the English" readable and amusing."-- "New York Times""No other writer, from any continent, has this raceless, classless fellowship combined with total physical receptiveness...Mrs. Lessing has always been more than a regional moral messenger; she is a prospector into the minds, spirit and senses of all, imaginatively at home anywhere."-- "The Times" (London)"A magnificent book, quite staggering in its penetration of the ordinary working-class Londoner's nature."-- Cyril Dunn, "Washington Post"
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'In Pursuit of the English' is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you have probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life.
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- Publication date1996
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