The Memoirs of a Survivor - Softcover

Lessing, Doris May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553024949 ISBN 13: 9780553024944

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1976

Synopsis

**OWN THIS RARE, MINT-CONDITION, IMPOSSIBLE-TO-FIND, UNREAD, 1976, 32-YR-OLD PAPERBACK COLLECTIBLE: 'The Memoirs Of A Survivor,' By Doris Lessing. A Visionary's Extraordinary History Of The Future. A Spellbinding Book Lessing Calls 'An Attempt At Autobiography.' This Is The Bizarre Journal Of A Woman. The Time Is The Future. The Setting, Modern Society, A Nightmare Of Fouled-Up Telephones And Broken-Down Buses, Of Scarce Water, Polluted Air And Adolescent Gangs Scavenging In Deserted Streets. The Woman, Guardian Of A 12-Yr-Old Child, Is Making Her Escape From The World Of Reality Into The World Of An Imaginary Past. *PLUS 2 FREE USED PAPERBACK MEMOIRS: Savage Beauty: The Life Of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford AND Keeping Secrets: Adult Child Of Alcoholic, Suzanne Somers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time

"A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The New York Times Book Review

"Doris Lessing again presents herself as one of the most intelligent of all modern novelists." -- Philadelphia Bulletin

"The most fluid and suggestive of all her books."

-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A short, easily read novel...part science fiction and part 19th-century realism, its effect is profoundly affecting and mystical... especially moving for those who have responded to Lessing's previous work." -- Houston Chronicle

"A major work, one that well proves her vigor, originality and importance as a novelist." -- Cleveland Free Press

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0553024949
• ISBN 13: 9780553024944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217