Volume 45, Number 18 · November 19, 1998
Doris Lessing's Double Life
By Rosemary Dinnage
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962
by Doris Lessing
HarperCollins, 416 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Born at the end of the 'Great War'—the war that she believes overshadowed her parents and her childhood—Doris Lessing can be considered an elder stateswoman now, of literature, political experience, feminism. No fewer than thirty-six books by her were listed at the beginning of the first volume of her autobiography. Walking in the Shade is the second volume and, since it ends thirty-six years ago, should fortunately be followed by at least one more.
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