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Doris Lessing
In this illuminating, moving memoir Doris Lessing, the Nobel laureate, gives us a tale of two halves, of fiction and memory. She revisits her parents' lives as they were, but the wisdom of experience and understanding has replaced her innocence; and she can now realise their deep sadness. She also places them in lives they never lived - happier lives, where they were friends but never married, and the Great War never cast its awful shadow over their family. Lessing imagines that her father pursued his desire to be a farmer, whilst her mother became a nurse and educator - they lived well, and realised their dreams. This is Lessing, trying to lay to rest the ghosts of war and its terrible legacy. Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.
January 1, 2009 by Harper Perennial
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