Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0006548253 / ISBN 13: 9780006548256

Published by Fourth Estate, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006548253
• ISBN 13: 9780006548256
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 300 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.

Doris Lessing’s autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase.

It charts the evolution first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and challenging as anything she has ever written.

It is already recognised as one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.