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First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 171 pages. Edited & introduced by Paul Schlueter; essays by/about: Roy Newquist, Jonah Raskin, Florence Howe, Olive Schreiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Eugene Marais, Karen Blixen; Africa, green c w/lite sunning of spine/edges.
Seller Inventory # 113254
- Title
- A Small Personal Voice
- Author
- Lessing, Doris May
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf, NY
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039449329X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394493299
- Edition
- 1st
- Dimensions
- 8vo
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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.
'The Golden Notebook, The Fifth Child, London Observed, African Laughter' and many other Doris Lessing books are available in Flamingo.
'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.'
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