Real Thing : Stories and Sketches, Paperback by Lessing, Doris May, Brand New...

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Item Length: 8 in ISBN: 9780060924171 Book Title: Real Thing : Stories and Sketches gtin13: 9780060924171 Format: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Pages Language: English Genre: Fiction Topic: Contemporary Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary Author: Doris Lessing Item Width: 5.3 in Item Weight: 6.2 Oz Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Year: 1993 Item Height: 0.5 in

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Real Thing : Stories and Sketches, Paperback by Lessing, Doris May, ISBN 0060924179, ISBN-13 9780060924171, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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.