The Memoirs of a Survivor

The Memoirs of a Survivor

by Doris Lessing
The Memoirs of a Survivor

The Memoirs of a Survivor

by Doris Lessing

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Overview

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman — middle-aged and middle-class — is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal — a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780394757599
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/12/1988
Series: Vintage International
Edition description: 1st Vintage Books ed
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,112,299
Product dimensions: 5.18(w) x 7.94(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

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.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1919

Place of Birth:

Persia (now Iran)
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