London Observed: Stories and Sketches

Lessing, Doris:

ISBN 10: 0586092269 / ISBN 13: 9780586092262

Verlag: Flamingo, 1993

Beschreibung

224 Seiten; Artikel stammt aus Nichtraucherhaushalt! AH10202 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 168.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1078602

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: London Observed: Stories and Sketches
• Verlag: Flamingo
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Deutsch
• ISBN-10: 0586092269
• ISBN-13: 9780586092262
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Gut
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Inhaltsangabe

Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot recall now … it was a nightmare city that I lived in for a year. Then, one evening, walking across the park, the light welded buildings, trees and scarlet buses into something familiar and beautiful, and I knew myself to be at home.'

Lessing’s vision of London – a place of nightmares and wonder – underpins this brilliantly multifaceted collection of stories about the city, seen from a cafe table, a hospital bed, the back seat of a taxi, a hospital casualty department; seen, as always, unflinchingly, and compellingly depicted.

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Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.