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Title: IN PURSUIT OF THE ENGLISH
By: Doris Lessing
Format: Paperback

List price: £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 ...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Flamingo
Returns: Non-returnable
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