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Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060182954
- ISBN 13
- 9780060182953
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. Not price clipped ($27.50). Remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 8 pages of photos. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row [10987654321] on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "WALKING IN THE SHADE covers the years 1949 to 1962, from Lessing's arrival in 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..." [The book] also evokes the bohemian days of a young writer and single mother in 1950s London her early successes... her work in the theater where she befriended Kenneth Tynan, John Osborne, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, and Arnold Wesker; her political activities through which she met... E. P. Thompson, Bertrand Russell, and Henry Kissinger; and her romantic liaisons...". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 405pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012457
- Title
- Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060182954
- ISBN 13
- 9780060182953
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo. 405pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
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