In Pursuit of the English
In Pursuit of the English
Doris Lessing
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
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By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail – a life of glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered everyone. A fascinating, hilarious memoir of her first impressions of her adopted country, ‘In Pursuit of the English' brilliantly captures Lessing’s constant wonder at and growing affection for the people she came to know: the working-class of the East End of London. Lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded, they were quite unlike the English she had expected to find …
Product Description
Title - In Pursuit of the English
Edition -
Author - Doris Lessing
ISBN 13 - 9780006545163
Imprint - Flamingo
Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published - 13/04/1993
Prize -
No. of pages -
Binding Type - Paperback
Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 15mm
Weight - 167 g
Languages - English