Alfred and Emily

Doris May Lessing

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Fourth Estate, 2008

0007233450 / 9780007233458

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274 pages. The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in So uthern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, a nd has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if tha t old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' In this extraordinary book , the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both o f them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life o f an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereaf ter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book, Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all, a story that has them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester as children but leading separate lives. This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war, their move to Rhod esia, a damaged couple squatting over Doris's childhood in a strange land. 'Here I still am,' says Doris Lessing, 'trying to get out from under that monstrous l egacy, trying to get free.' With the publication of Alfred and Emily she has don e just that.…

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Título
Alfred and Emily
Autor
Doris May Lessing
Editorial
Fourth Estate
Año de publicación
2008
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0007233450
ISBN 13
9780007233458
Dimensiones
14.5cm x 2.9cm x 22.3cm
Catálogos de vendedores
Biography

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