Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

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.

Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780060834890
ISBN 10	0060834897
Title	Alfred and Emily
Author	Doris Lessing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2009-10-20
Number of pages	288
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