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In Pursuit of the English (Paperback, New Ed)
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In Pursuit of the English (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar
London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature 2007. In the early post-war years, Doris Lessing
left her native Southern Africa in search of a grail - a life of
glamour and refinement that she naively believed England offered
everyone. A fascinating, hilarious memoir of her first impressions
of her adopted country, 'In Pursuit of the English' brilliantly
captures Lessing's constant wonder at and growing affection for the
people she came to know: the working-class of the East End of
London. Lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous and full-blooded, they
were quite unlike the English she had expected to find ...
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