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Item Details
Title:
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IN PURSUIT OF THE ENGLISH
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By: |
Doris Lessing Trust |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
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£4.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0007381670 |
ISBN 13: |
9780007381678 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
31 May, 2012 |
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 1949, 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: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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