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The Memoirs of a Survivor

โœ Scribed by Lessing, Doris

Book ID
106894125
Publisher
Vintage
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
148 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780394757599

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โœฆ Synopsis

SUMMARY: "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time "A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." -- Philadelphia Bulletin "The most fluid and suggestive of all her books." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work." -- Houston Chronicle "A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." -- Cleveland Free Press -- Review "One of her profoundest visionary excursions." --Gail Godwin, Chicago Tribune Book World "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility." --Time "A brilliant fable." --Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." --Philadelphia Bulletin "The most fluid and suggestive of all her books." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work." --Houston Chronicle "A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." --Cleveland Free Press

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