Collects all of the claimed South African writer's stories, except those which deal with life in Africa, presenting intact a major aspect of her work
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"Doris Lessing's artistry is demonstrated over and over in this generous collection." -"Time""Lessing is the great realist writer of our time." -Diane Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review""[Lessing's] stock of reliable, solid information about life is enormous; her social range...impressively wide; her interests, human, varied, oddly reassuring." -Margaret Drabble, "Saturday Review"
Doris Lessing s artistry is demonstrated over and over in this generous collection. "Time" Lessing is the great realist writer of our time. Diane Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review" [Lessing s] stock of reliable, solid information about life is enormous; her social range impressively wide; her interests, human, varied, oddly reassuring. Margaret Drabble, "Saturday Review""
-Doris Lessing's artistry is demonstrated over and over in this generous collection.- -Time-Lessing is the great realist writer of our time.- -Diane Johnson, The New York Times Book Review-[Lessing's] stock of reliable, solid information about life is enormous; her social range...impressively wide; her interests, human, varied, oddly reassuring.- -Margaret Drabble, Saturday Review
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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