Alfred and Emily by LESSING, Doris

HarperCollins Publishers Limited. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Very Good.

Fourth Estate, London, 2008. Softcover. Fair. Leesvouwen in rug. Iets scheef gelezen.

Fourth Estate, London, 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 275 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Edges slightly foxed. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded. In the fictional first half of the book, she imagines the happier lives they might have led if there had been no war. The second half is a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was.… Read More