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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Questions for Doris Lessing - A Literary Light - Interview - NYTimes.com

Nice short interview with Doris Lessing :)
[NYT]--- At the age of 88, you're newly bedecked with a Nobel Prize and have a new book, "Alfred & Emily," whose title refers to your parents, British colonists who raised you in Rhodesia. Here, you tell their story twice — first as a novella in which you dream up happy lives for them and then as a memoir based on the sad facts. It strikes me as a tender book. It's not a question of tenderness. It's a question of justice. I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

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