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Doris Lessing

by Carole Klein
Cedar House Audio
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Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing Communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science-fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.

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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781481598873
  • File size: 316744 KB
  • Release date: September 11, 2008
  • Duration: 10:59:52

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  • ISBN: 9781481598873
  • File size: 316782 KB
  • Release date: September 11, 2008
  • Duration: 10:59:49
  • Number of parts: 9
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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

Text Difficulty:9-12

Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing Communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science-fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction