The Real Thing

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The Real Thing

Stories and Sketches

Doris Lessing

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"Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both pitiless and compassionate." — Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the pieces are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women and men, as in the rich and emotionally complex title story, in which she uncovers a more parlous reality behind the façade of the most conventional relationship between the sexes.

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LiteraryFictionWomenFeministAnthologies20th CenturyHistoricalWomen AuthorsLiterary CollectionsAll Other FictionEuropeWorld LiteratureComing of AgeClassicsCollections & AnthologiesScience Fiction

Released2010

LanguageEnglish

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN9780062034892

SellerHarperCollins

About the author(s)

Winner 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—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

Reviews

"A rich portrait of contemporary London...As always, Lessing expertly deciphers the complex relationships that characterize modern life." - New York Times Book Review

"[The Real Thing] showcases the uncompromising realism that first won Doris Lessing fame...A real treat for Lessing fans." - Wendy Smith, Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A rich portrait of contemporary London...As always, Lessing expertly deciphers the complex relationships that characterize modern life." - New York Times Book Review

"The most accessible and lyrical of [Doris Lessing's] books, it registers the pulse of a modern metropolis." - Robert Taylor, Boston Globe