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050 00 $aPR6023.E833$bA78 2008
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100 1 $aLessing, Doris,$d1919-2013.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79041772
245 10 $aAlfred and Emily /$cDoris Lessing.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aviii, 274 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In this 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. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel." "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 story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLessing, Doris,$d1919-2013$xFamily$vFiction.
600 10 $aLessing, Doris,$d1919-2013$xFamily.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCasualties$vBiography.
650 0 $aAmputees$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aBritish$zZimbabwe$vBiography.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118164
852 00 $bbar$hPR6023.E833$iA78 2008