Description
Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War.
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.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/20/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780060834890
ISBN10: 0060834897
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women