Time Bites by Doris Lessing

Time Bites by Doris Lessing

A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty.-- Booklist

In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays span an impressive range of subjects, cultures, periods, and themes, yet they are remarkably consistent in one key regard: Lessing's clear-eyed vision and clearly-expressed prose. But in its breadth and precision Time Bites is more: it is also a map of the human spirit and an intimate diagram of the mind of one of our greatest living writers.

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	9780060831417
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Title	Time Bites
Author	Doris Lessing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2006-11-28
Number of pages	384
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