ALFRED & EMILY - Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing'S First Book After She Won The Nobel Prize. This Extraordinary Book Takes Lessing Back To Her Childhood In Southern Africa And The Lives, Both Fictional And Factual, That Her Parents Lead. 'I Think My Father'S Rage At The Trenches Took Me Over, When I Was Very Young, And Has Never Left Me. Do Children Feel Their Parents' Emotions? Yes, We Do&' The Nobel Laureate Explores The Lives Of Her Parents, Both Of Them Irrevocably Damaged By The Great War. Her Father Wanted The Simple Life Of An English Farmer, But Shrapnel Almost Killed Him In The Trenches, And Thereafter He Had To Wear A Wooden Leg. Her Mother Emily'S Great Love Was A Doctor, Who Drowned In The Channel, And She Spent The War Nursing The Wounded In The Royal Free Hospital. In The First Half Of This Book, Doris Lessing Imagines The Lives Her Parents Might Have Made For Themselves Had There Been No War At All, A Story That Has Them Meeting At A Village Cricket Match Outside Colchester As Children But Leading Separate Lives. This Is Followe...
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33,DORIS LESSING,2009,HARPER PERENNIAL.PAPERBACK,ENGELSTALIG,274 PAG.,ISBN 978 0 00 724017 3, - ALFRED & EMILY
