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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Lessing, Doris May, 1919-     Subjects     Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family -- Fiction.     Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Biography.     Amputees -- Great Britain -- Biography.     British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lessing, Doris May, 1919-       by title:      Alfred and Emily / D...       by call number:      940.4144 L639a     Search the Web     Lessing, Doris May, 1919-     Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family -- Fiction.     Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Biography.     Amputees -- Great Britain -- Biography.     British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.     World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects.       MARC Display

Alfred and Emily / Doris Lessing. by Lessing, Doris May, 1919- Harper, c2008. Call #: 940.4144 L639a Subjects Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family -- Fiction.   Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties -- Biography.   Amputees -- Great Britain -- Biography.   British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects.   World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects. ISBN:  9780060834890 (2009 1st Harper Perennial ed.) 9780060834883 0060834889 Alternate title:  Alfred & Emily Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  viii, 274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Notes:  Fiction and fact. Summary:  "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. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.4144 L639a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.4144 L639a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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