Under My Skin: My Autobiography

Lessing, D.

ISBN 10: 0006548253 / ISBN 13: 9780006548256

Published by Fourth Estate, 2013

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780006548256.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under My Skin: My Autobiography
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006548253
• ISBN 13: 9780006548256
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.

Doris Lessing's autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase.

It charts the evolution first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and challenging as anything she has ever written.

It is already recognised as one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.

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.