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The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches Paperback - 1993
by Doris May Lessing; Doris May Lessing
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Lessing's collection of keenly observed stories and sketches affirms that she is one of the most penetrating and masterful storytellers of our time. Revealing complexities behind the most conventional relationships, Lessing once again "proves herself an adept and moving chronicler of contemporary life" (Miami Herald).
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The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women and men, as in the rich and emotionally complex title story, in which she uncovers a more parlous reality behind the facade of the most conventional relationship between the sexes.
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- Title The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
- Author Doris May Lessing; Doris May Lessing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1993-06-16
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060924171 / 0060924179
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.12 x 0.58 in (20.57 x 13.00 x 1.47 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects London (England)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91059932
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 05/17/1993, Page 0
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