Under My Skin

Volume One of My Autobiography, To 1949

By: Doris Lessing

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Paperback | 9 October 1995

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The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Also winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.

The first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase. It charts the evolution first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and challenging as anything she has ever written. It is already recognised as one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.

About the Author

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are The Golden Notebook, The Fifth Child and Memoirs of a Survivor. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, Under my Skin and Walking in the Shade. Her most recent novel is The Cleft.

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This covers Lessing's childhood in Rhodesia, her dreadful relationship with her mother, her dropping out of school aged 14, her first writing, her first love, her first marriage and two children, the war years, her joining of the Communist Party and abandonment of her husband and children - and on up to her leaving Africa for London with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase. She is unsparing - both of herself and others - and always curious, always engaged, always intent on understanding why. She is one of our greatest writers, and reading this not only sent me back with renewed appetite to her novels but also made me question my own life and choices. Under My Skin exposed me to the powerful blast of Lessing's intelligence. Review by Jane Rogers, whose novels include 'Island' (Kirkus UK)

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