The Memoirs of a Survivor
"One of her profoundest visionary excursions." --Gail Godwin,Chicago Tribune Book World"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