Doris Lessing

✍ Scribed by Susan Watkins

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Series: Contemporary World Writers
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced will be her final novel. This is the first significant book-length critical evaluation in ten years.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Contents
Series editor’s foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Contexts and intertexts
Going ‘home’
The politics of loss
The voice of authority?
Writing in a minor key
Sweet dreams and rememories
Critical overview and conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index