A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts)
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Book Description
This Broadview edition pairs two Doris Lessing novellas originally published in Five (1953), for which Lessing won the Somerset Maugham Award of the Society of Authors. Written during her first years in London, these two superb works (set in 1940s Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) elaborate upon the picture of settler society drawn in Lessing's earlier novel, The Grass is Singing.
The edition includes an introduction that emphasizes the relations between writer, reader, and history, as well as a selection of documents illustrating the biographical, literary, and historical contexts from which these novels emerged. The contextual material includes autobiographical commentary by Lessing, contemporary reviews, and excerpts from interviews and from work by contemporary African writers.
About the Author
Doris Lessing's most recent books are Mara and Dann :An Adventure (2000) and Ben, In the World (2001). Her novel The Sweetest Dream will be published February 2002 by Harper Collins.
Jean Pickering is a Professor of English at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Understanding Doris Lessing (1990), co-editor of Narratives of Nostalgia, Gender and Nationalism (New York UP, 1997), and has published several articles on Doris Lessing.
A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap (Broadview Literary Texts),Doris May Lessing,Jean Pickering,Broadview Press,1551113635,Africa,Fiction,General,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Modern fiction
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