London Observed

By: Doris Lessing

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Paperback | 13 April 1993

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224 Pages

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Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now ... it was a nightmare city that I lived in for a year. Then, one evening, walking across the park, the light welded buildings, trees and scarlet buses into something familiar and beautiful, and I knew myself to be at home.'

Lessing's vision of London - a place of nightmares and wonder - underpins this brilliantly multifaceted collection of stories about the city, seen from a cafe table, a hospital bed, the back seat of a taxi, a hospital casualty department; seen, as always, unflinchingly, and compellingly depicted.

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This author's short fiction has always been her best, and these often very brief short pieces are terse, vivid, masterly (The Pit is a wonderful story; Debbie and Julie is rivetingly moving). The connections with London are actually slim; the connection with fine writing is obvious. (Kirkus UK)

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