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<p><P>"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." <P>The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her politics, offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>"What is better than a really good biography? Not many novels," says Lessing in her first chapter of what is destined to be one of the best autobiographies of our time. Although Lessing has incorporated her life into nearly all of her novels, most notably the Martha Quest series, and has published some short autobiographical sketches, this is her first full-length autobiography, with a second volume projected to cover 1950 onward. From her childhood in the wilds of what was then Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) through her young married life in Salisbury to her Communist years during World War II, Le

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Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060171643

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (503 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14