ISBN: 9780060976293 - in pursuit of the english: a documentary – by nobel laureate doris lessing, a brilliant and funny cultural memoir of working-class london (11 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the most authentic books ever written about the English.Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages.'San Francisco ChronicleIn Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. The cast of characters if that term can be applied to real people includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to Lessing's question 'Don't you ever like sex ' with 'If you're going to talk dirty, I'm not interested.'In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that is a brilliant piece of cultural interpretation, an intriguing memoir and a thoroughly engaging read.What are the English really like when they think no one is watching - English Character Study: From con men to prostitutes, Lessing documents the full-blooded, often contradictory, nature of her fellow lodgers.- A Colonial Eye on England: A sharp, outsider's perspective on the strange customs and unspoken rules of the supposed 'mother country.'- Life in a Rooming House: The joys, terrors, and sheer absurdity of everyday life crammed into a single, sprawling boarding house.- Wry Social Commentary: Lessing's famously swift, barbed style dissects the nuances of class, money, and ambition with eruptively funny precision. …

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnWinner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books&#8212a.