Description
Product ID: | 9780007143009 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | To Room Nineteen |
Subtitle: | Collected Stories Volume One |
Authors: | Author: Doris Lessing |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday.From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage ‘grounded in intelligence’, to the shocking ‘A Woman on the Roof’, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s, bears stunning witness to Doris Lessing’s perspective on the human condition. |
Imprint Name: | Flamingo |
Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-08-19 |