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Item Details
Title:
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IN PURSUIT OF THE ENGLISH
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By: |
Doris Lessing |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0006545165 |
ISBN 13: |
9780006545163 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 1993 |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. |
Synopsis: |
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail - a life of glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered everyone. A fascinating, hilarious memoir of her first impressions of her adopted country, `In Pursuit of the English' brilliantly captures Lessing's constant wonder at and growing affection for the people she came to know: the working-class of the East End of London. Lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded, they were quite unlike the English she had expected to find ... |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Flamingo |
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Non-returnable |
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