Alfred and Emily Paperback - 2009
by Doris Lessing
From the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature comes a memoir that interweaves fiction writing and autobiography in an utterly unique and innovative way.
From the rear cover
In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.
"Here I still am," says Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.
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- Title Alfred and Emily
- Author Doris Lessing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2009-10-20
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780060834890 / 0060834897
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 12/06/2009, Page 60
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