The Memoirs of a Survivor
by:
Doris Lessing (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394757599 (0394757599)
Publish date: April 12th 1988
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
I'm not entirely sure I got all that. Which makes those five stars seem shaky. But there was this... brilliance, let's say. The glare allowed me to see around, divine shapes at the core, while everything else was almost beyond reach yet never quite. It sure left me with a bunch of questions and my...
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