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The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Memoirs of a Survivor | Doris Lessing
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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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Kimberlone Such an epic book 5y
ephemeralwaltz All the love for Shirley Jackson! 5y
Alfoster Lord of the Flies—my fave!👏👏👏 5y
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melissajayne Ugh Lord of the Flies. Both times I read it, I didn‘t like it (one was for my grade 11 English class; the other was on my own, 10 years later). 5y
Andronicus Agree with @ephemeralwaltz re Shirley Jackson. Hill House and The Lottery get deserved praise, but my fave is We Have Always Lived In The Castle. 🏰 5y
Kaye Grapes of Wrath is long, dusty, but yet the writing is beautiful. The ending is extremely odd but somehow fitting. 5y
Lcsmcat I‘ve read all but the Lessing. And enjoyed them all to one degree or another. 5y
tracy.m.ng Omg the grapes of wrath. That is taking me back to high school summer reading 5y
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This is a profound coming-of-age novel that disguises itself as a dystopic fiction. In her self-proclaimed autobiography, Lessing allows the reader to dig into the literal walls of her conscious to witness the painful beauty of adolescence. I loved this book enough to review it in 15 pages for a class; I would recommend it to anyone.