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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962

Lessing, Doris

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ISBN10: 0060929561
ISBN13: 9780060929565
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Sep 23 1998
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.03
Language: English

The life she describes is heroic...yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.-- San Francisco Chronicle

The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography, a landmark literary memoir, covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in post-war London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. She describes how communism dominated the intellectual life of the Cold War era 1950s and how she, like nearly all communists, experienced a deep disillusionment with extreme and rhetorical politics and left communism behind. Evoking the bohemian lifestyle of a young writer and single mother, Lessing speaks openly about her writing process, her friends and lovers, her involvement in the theater, and her political activities. Walking in the Shade is an invaluable social history as well as Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education.

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