Name: Walking in the Shade: Volume two of my Autobiography--1949-1962 (in English)
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Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780060929565

portada Walking in the Shade: Volume two of my Autobiography--1949-1962 (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Harper Collins

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

404

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0060929561

ISBN13

9780060929565

Edition No.

Synopsis "Walking in the Shade: Volume two of my Autobiography--1949-1962 (in English)"

The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary 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 1950s and how she, like nearly all communists, became disillusioned with extreme and rhetorical politics and left communism behind. Evoking the bohemian days 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.

Doris Lessing

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(Irán, 1919 - Londres, 2013). Escritora inglesa nacida en Irán. En 1924 su familia se trasladó a Zimbabwe, allí vivió su infancia y juventud en una granja. Abandonó el Instituto a los catorce años para iniciar una formación autodidacta. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007. Su contacto y amor por África constituyó la narrativa de algunas de sus novelas; el tema de la emancipación de la mujer abunda también en su obra de ficción. También incursionó en el terreno de la fantasía como ángulo de observación de la condición humana. El cuaderno dorado (1962) es su obra más famosa.

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