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Bezig met laden... The Real Thing: Stories and Sketchesdoor Doris Lessing
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  k6gst | May 24, 2019 |   A collection of essays and stories set mainly in modern London. The title story was my favorite, last in the collection, although the second to last, 'The Pit', was similiar and sets it up nicely. The premise, why can't a whole groups of adults, married and divorced and remarrying and their various children of different spouses just have a nice weekend in the country? The most amazing is the way no one character is cast as right or wrong, the moral ambiguity of it all is superb. Lessing is one of the few authors who short works I can read and enjoy. She is really a master of that form. amyem58 | Jul 11, 2014 | I have a very strong memory of discussing the Golden Notebook in high school, and why Lessing dwells (or so some thought) on menstruation and other physical realities of being female. She uses the same descriptive power in some of these stories, notably with two births (one human, one deer). The stripping bare of pretense is a statement in and of itself. She sometimes levels this same technique at race and class, but never with the same effectiveness. In one story she rattles off colors of subway passengers like she was writing a J. Crew catalog - this one's ecru, that one's mocha... The collection is diverse - the back of the book will try to tell you it's about the diversity of London, or about men and women, or about "personal relationships in a unsound society". It's not any of those things, or perhaps it's all of them. The "Sketches" part of the title seems the most appropriate description - sketches of people and places written by a perceptive and imaginative woman. (  ) bexaplex | Jun 3, 2007 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is a collection of stories set in London. Heavy on mother/daughter stuff, and animals. Good. (