Description
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.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/12/1988
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780394757599
ISBN10: 0394757599
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/12/1988
Pages: 213
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780394757599
ISBN10: 0394757599
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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.