Under my skin
By: Doris Lessing.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Lessing, Doris May, -- 1919-; Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This, the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, in her suitcase."--BOOK JACKET. "The book recalls her own mind as a child, and the life of a child, with almost overwhelming immediacy, mapping the growth first of her consciousness, then, in adolescence, of her sexuality, and later, as a young woman, of her political beliefs. The African landscape (described with great lyricism), her often angry and combative relationship with her parents, her intense awareness of her own body, her passionate involvement with other people and indeed with everything around her are all here very, very powerfully present."--BOOK JACKET. "Under My Skin shows a woman uncompromising, from the beginning, in every aspect, who breaks all the rules, who battles at every turn against her upbringing and environment, who looks on the world clear and hard; and yet who also displays a softness, a wonderful sense of humor, a compassion for human failure."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Volume one of my autobiography, to 1949."