Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949 - Hardcover

Lessing, Doris May

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060171502 ISBN 13: 9780060171506

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1994

Synopsis

The author recounts her childhood in Persia and Southern Rhodesia, difficult adolescence, two marriages, political activity, and growth as a writer

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by. . . robust and efficient hands."

The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics, offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time.

About the Author:

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0060171502
• ISBN 13: 9780060171506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419