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In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction
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The Memoirs of a Survivor, Doris Lessing
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- Released
- 1988
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Doris Lessing
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0394757599
- ISBN13
- 9780394757599
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Fantasy, Animals, Science Fiction, Women, Classics, Science Fantasy, England, Society, Dogs, Fear, Survival, Future, Post-apocalyptic, Nobel prize, Chaos, Utopia, Responsibility
- Original title
- The memoirs of a survivor
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction