In Pursuit of the English
A Documentary
In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. The cast of characters--if that term can be applied to real people--includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing's question Don't you ever like sex? with If you're going to talk dirt…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-097629-3
- EAN: 9780060976293
- Produktnummer: 20387070
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.
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