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by Doris Lessing (Author) "HIGH ON THE SIDE OF THE TALL SHIP, I HELD UP MY LITTLE BOY and said, 'Look there's London' Dockland: muddy creeks and channels, grevish..." (more)
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More casually written and organized than Under My Skin, the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography boasts the same acute, brutally frank insights. She begins with her 1949 arrival in London as a 30-year-old single mother from Rhodesia who is searching for a place and a means to write freely; Lessing closes in 1962 with the publication of her most famous novel, The Golden Notebook. In between, she covers love affairs, years of psychotherapy, and her increasingly disenchanted involvement with the Communist Party. Walking in the Shade is essential reading for anyone interested in mid-century British culture. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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A follow-up to Lessing's acclaimed memoir, Under My Skin (LJ 10/1/94), this volume covers the years when she wrote The Golden Notebook.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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HIGH ON THE SIDE OF THE TALL SHIP, I HELD UP MY LITTLE BOY and said, 'Look there's London' Dockland: muddy creeks and channels, grevish rotting wooden walls and beams, cranes, tugs, big and little ships. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Walking in the shade of communism., Dec 12 2002
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This second part of Doris Lessing's candid biography, which depicts her difficult beginnings in London, is a more bitter report than the first one. It is full of personal and ideological disappointments.

Like so many young intellectuals in Europe, she finds shelter in the leftist Church (with capitalism as hell, Lenin, Stalin or Mao as Christ the Saviour, and Utopia as heaven) and becomes a believer in heart and soul. She still has difficulties to believe why she was so blind (even after a trip to Russia) and stayed like many others so long with the communist movement.
The agonizing psychological struggle to become an apostate is very emotionally told.

What saved her was art, in which she has a limitless belief: it can overthrow world powers.

This is a moving, uninhibited and realistic work, exemplary for many idealistic but wilfully deceived young people in the ninteen fifties and sixties. Outsiders willing to write her biography will not have many more 'secrets' to reveal.
Not to be missed.

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