The Sun Between Their Feet (Collected African Stories)

Literature & Fiction

DORIS LESSING

Contemporary

Flamingo

A beautifully produced edition of a new cat tale from Doris Lessing. A new short story from Doris Lessing about an awkwardly loveable old cat, to be produced as a beautiful small-format giftish hardback for the cat-loving part of the Christmas market.

The Old Age of El Magnifico

Paperback. Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Flamingo Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing. winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Written from 1950s to the 1970s. the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times . and are rich with Doris Lessing's characteristic passion and incisiveness. 'Play with a Tiger' follows the fortunes of Anna and Dave. representatives of the emerging post-war classless society. and their attempts to find a blueprint for living. 'The Singing Door '. written for children. is a highly experimental play. a clever and witty allegorical study of power games.' Each His Own Wilderness' tells the story of Myra. who has fought all her life for the socialist ideal. and who must now come to terms with the fact that despite her best efforts. her son is indifferent to her politics.

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Literary

Particularly Cats

This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village - all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing's own words, 'Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.'

The Sun Between Their Feet

The Sweetest Dream

Genre Fiction

First published by Michael Joseph in 1984, under a pseudonym, as 'The Diary of a Good Neighbour' and 'If the Old Could!', now published as 'The Diaries of Jane Somers', this is in many ways classic Lessing. As resonant with social and political themes as 'The Golden Notebook', Lessing returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and experience of maturity. The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. But her real inadequacy is highlighted when first her husband, then her mother, die from cancer and Jane feels strangely removed. In an attempt to fill this void, she befriends ninety-something Maudie, whose poverty and squalor contrast so radically with the glamour and luxury of the magazine world. The two gradually come to depend on each other -- Maudie delighting Jane with tales of London in the 1920s and Jane trying to care for the rapidly deteriorating old woman. 'The Diary of Jane Somers' contrasts the helplessness of the elderly with that of the young as Jane is forced to care for her nineteen-year-old drop-out niece Kate who is struggling with an emotional breakdown. Jane realises that she understands young people as little as she so recently did the old.

The Diaries of Jane Somers

Spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

The Golden Notebook

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Alfred and Emily

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The Final Reckoning

Reference

Harper-Collins India

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