A Small Personal Voice

Doris May Lessing

ISBN 10: 039449329X / ISBN 13: 9780394493299

Published by Knopf, 1974

About this Item

Orange titling has faded from the spine of the worn dust jacket, foxing to the tanned page edges, bookseller's pencil marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Small Personal Voice
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039449329X
• ISBN 13: 9780394493299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Collected works spanning a period of seventeen years reveal the contemporary writer's thoughts on her craft, various writers, her life, and Africa

From the Back Cover

'A Small Personal Voice' is an essential and definitive collection of Doris Lessing's finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Displaying to the full the extraordinary range of her intellectual curiosity, this volume includes tributes to fellow writers such as Isak Dinesen, Olive Schreiner and Kurt Vonnegut, essays on Malcolm X and Sufism, discussions of the responsibility of the artist, reflections on her political exile from Southern Rhodesia, and a recent, remarkable memoir of her combative and complicated relationship with her mother. Witty, acute, illuminated throughout by Doris Lessing's distinctive passionate honesty, 'A Small Personal Voice' is a fascinating self-portrait of one of this century's most provocative and influential writers.

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'In an essay to accompany a reprint of Olive Shreiner's 'Story of an African Farm', Doris Lessing takes Schreiner's strange and beloved book and simply in telling its story reveals its inner logic just the way she does the lives of her most densely imagined characters. 'My father' is quite simple, loving, cleansing. She lights up this sketch with forgiveness and wonder, and does it with those firm-treading steps of hers that keep saying: this is how it was, had to be. There's no one like her.'
ROGER SALE, 'New York Times'

'It is Doris Lessing's peculiar gift to write with the kind of honesty and generosity that suggests to the reader he is privileged to be a friend, to feel he knows something of the true ideals, the private agonies and delights that have inspired her writing.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT