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Alfred and Emily is a book by Doris Lessing in a new hybrid form. Part fiction, part notebook, part memoir, it was first published in 2008. The book is based on the lives of Lessing's parents.
- Doris May Lessing
- 2008
In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg.
9 dic 2020 · In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier life her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war, a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester.
14 apr 2021 · Alfred and Emily confronts the impossibility of any final conclusion to Lessing’s relationship with Southern Rhodesia and the former British Empire.
- Emma Parker
- 2021
10 ago 2008 · Unlike most, she became a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning writer, and in “Alfred and Emily” offers them the greatest gift she can: the lives they might have had.
20 ott 2009 · Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War.
- Doris Lessing
"In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a...
