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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-62 (Paperback)

by Doris May Lessing (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (5 May 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006388892
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006388890
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 79,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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More casually written and organized than Under My Skin, the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography boasts the same acute, brutally frank insights. She begins with her 1949 arrival in London as a 30-year-old single mother from Rhodesia who is searching for a place and the means to write freely; Lessing closes in 1962 with the publication of her most famous novel, The Golden Notebook. In between, she covers love affairs, years of psychotherapy, and her increasingly disenchanted involvement with the Communist Party. Walking in the Shade is essential reading for anyone interested in mid-century British culture.


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'Funny and heartbreaking! every word rings true.' Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year 'It is exhilarating to read. Not many lives are worth more than two long volumes, but Doris Lessing's most certainly is.' Literary Review
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Walking in the shade of communism, 12 Oct 2007
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This second part of Doris Lessing's candid biography, which depicts her difficult beginnings in London, is a more bitter report than the first one. It is full of personal and ideological disappointments.

Like so many young intellectuals in Europe, she finds a shelter in the leftist Church (with capitalism as hell, Lenin, Stalin or Mao as Christ the Saviour, and Utopia as heaven) and becomes a believer in heart and soul. She still has difficulties to believe why she was so blind (even after a trip to Russia) and stayed so long with the communist movement. For her fellow companions she thinks that they stayed because they wanted to be part of an elite and a power club. The agonizing psychological struggle to become an apostate is very emotionally told.

What saved her was art, in which she has a limitless belief: it can overthrow world powers.

This is a moving, uninhibited and realistic work, exemplary for many idealistic but wilfully deceived young people in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Not to be missed.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Second volume of autobiography, 22 Jun 2002
The second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, taking us from her arrival in London in 1949 to the publication of her seminal 'Golden Notebook' in 1962.

'Walking in the Shade' takes us into a darker world: her struggles as a single parent, making her way in a male world; her political battles and disillusionment; fraught relationships and emotional turmoil; and her determination to win through and maintain independence through her literary skills.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Walking in the Shade, 1 Feb 2009
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I know Ms. Lessing doesn't want to talk much about her children and her relationship with them, but I feel this leaves out a lot about herself that can be connected with other parts of her life that she does talk about in depth.
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