In pursuit of the English
| Title | In pursuit of the English |
|---|---|
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| Publication | Flamingo |
| Size | 228p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780006545163 |
| Topics |
National characteristics--Great Britain Travel--Great Britain--London |
| Notes | In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail. But the English she pursued - and found - were living in working-class homes in East London. They were lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded - quite unlike what they were supposed to be. In Pursuit of the English is a first-class novelist's account of the lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about - though they are the real English. In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that makes a permanent addition to writing about the English. |
914.21
LESS 9
4404
Available
© Auroville Library |
2014-2025