Alfred and Emily
Lessing, Doris
Sold by Jaycee Books., London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since March 16, 2017
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Jaycee Books., London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since March 16, 2017
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFine, red boards & green end papers, price clipped, gold embossed gilt spine, brief inscription top right half title page ( photo ), deckled front edge, bubble wrapped, mylar pro: 5* seller. The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern 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, and 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 that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' .
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In this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.
"Here I still am," says Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.
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