Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949, (Paperback)

from kaitanya64

I don't agree with Lessing about everything, nor do I like everything she has written. With that disclaimer, I feel free to say that this is a great memoir. From her early life as a child of white immigrants to "Northern Rhodesia" to her life in South Africa first as a fairly conventional wife an...

from janglen

This is a great autobiography, brilliantly written, endlessly fascinating and absorbing. I did come out of it, however, feeling rather overwhelmed by Lessing's very gloomy view of humanity, and the general tone of pessimism that pervades the book.

from MinnaH

A great book from my favourite author. It is interesting to read an autobiography from Doris Lessing after reading Children of Violence.

from baswood

Why would an author wish to write her autobiography? Lessing asks this question of herself at a time (1992) when she was aware that at least five writers were engaged in searching out aspects of her life in order to write her biography. She admits that it was an attempt, in a way, to claim her ow...

from xinyi

The most inspring and exciting book that i came across since her 'the golden notebook'! Beautifully paced, mythical and blood-boiling. A book dying for! even 5 star is not enough!