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This book has seen me through breakups, orals, family issues, 4 moves....I can't even count how many times I've come back to it. Doris Lessing is, as always, brilliant and straightforward about how people relate to each other and how memory and story telling interact. In addition, she gives great accounts of the people she met and history she witnessed until the age of 30 or so, when she left (then) Rhodesia. If you're interested in the colonial history of Africa, this is also an intelligent and concrete ground level view of events there pre and post-WWII.
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Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
Chana, January 1, 2010
This book has seen me through breakups, orals, family issues, 4 moves....I can't even count how many times I've come back to it. Doris Lessing is, as always, brilliant and straightforward about how people relate to each other and how memory and story telling interact. In addition, she gives great accounts of the people she met and history she witnessed until the age of 30 or so, when she left (then) Rhodesia. If you're interested in the colonial history of Africa, this is also an intelligent and concrete ground level view of events there pre and post-WWII.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)