UNDER MY SKIN VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 000255545X / ISBN 13: 9780002555456

Published by Harper Collins, 1994

About this Item

Circa 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. The first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, beginning with her childhood in Africa and ending on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her suitcase. Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Fourth printing. SIGNED by the author without dedication to title page. Pictorial wrapper is lightly scuffed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller Inventory # 1805510

Bibliographic Details

• Title: UNDER MY SKIN VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO 1949
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication Date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 000255545X
• ISBN 13: 9780002555456
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: SIGNED - please see description for details.

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Synopsis

"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.