num_pages: 448
description: "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands."The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics, offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time.
language: English
title: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
titlecomplete: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
genres: Literature, History, Autobiography, Memoir, Nobel Prize, Biography Memoir, Africa, Biography, Nonfiction, Zimbabwe
ratings_count: 803
series: Doris Lessing's autobiography
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Harper Perennial