THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394496337 / ISBN 13: 9780394496337

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1975

About this Item

In a beleaguered city where roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction. "A brilliant fable." --Maureen Howard, The New York Times Book Review. DJ it intact, bright and vivid. It has normal shelf wear with two 1/4" round impressions on surface of jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394496337
• ISBN 13: 9780394496337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy

Review

"An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time
"A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review
"Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." -- Philadelphia Bulletin
"The most fluid and suggestive of all her books."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work." -- Houston Chronicle
"A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." -- Cleveland Free Press

"One of her profoundest visionary excursions." --Gail Godwin, Chicago Tribune Book World
"An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility." --Time
"A brilliant fable." --Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review
"Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." --Philadelphia Bulletin
"The most fluid and suggestive of all her books." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work." --Houston Chronicle
"A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." --Cleveland Free Press

-One of her profoundest visionary excursions.- --Gail Godwin, Chicago Tribune Book World
-An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility.- --Time
-A brilliant fable.- --Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review
-Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists.- --Philadelphia Bulletin
-The most fluid and suggestive of all her books.- --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
-A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work.- --Houston Chronicle
-A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist.- --Cleveland Free Press