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In Pursuit of the English
Doris Lessing
One of the most authentic books ever written about the English.... Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages. -- San Francisco Chronicle
In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a 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. The cast of characters -- if that term can be applied to real people -- includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing's question Don't you ever like sex? with If you're going to talk dirty, I'm not interested.
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 is a brilliant piece of cultural interpretation, an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read.
| Mediji | Grāmatas Paperback Book (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru) |
| Izlaists | 1996. gada 1. marts |
| ISBN13 | 9780060976293 |
| Izdevēji | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Lapas | 224 |
| Izmēri | 135 × 204 × 17 mm · 312 g |
| Valoda | Angļu |
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