Doris Lessing: a biography
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date:
2000
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First Carroll and Graf edition
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English
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Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing Communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science-fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.
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9780786708062
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Biography
Lessing, Doris, -- 1919-2013
Women -- Biography
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Lessing, Doris, -- 1919-2013
Women -- Biography
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women novelists, English
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