Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 Paperback - 1998
by Doris Lessing
This highly acclaimed second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography chronicles her growth from a fledgling writer to one of literature's most respected figures. B&W photos.
Summary
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HIGH ON THE SIDE OF THE TALL SHIP, I HELD UP MY LITTLE BOY and said, 'Look there's London' Dockland: muddy creeks and channels, grevish rotting wooden walls and beams, cranes, tugs, big and little ships.
From the rear cover
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.
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- Title Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962
- Author Doris Lessing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Trade Edit
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date October 1, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780060929565 / 0060929561
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.3 x 1.02 in (20.40 x 13.46 x 2.59 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97009959
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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