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Alfred and Emily
Alfred and Emily
Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN-13: 9780060834890
ISBN-10: 0060834897
Publication Date: 11/1/2009
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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2 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2
I had such high hopes for this book. Unique plot device, set in an era that I particularly enjoy reading about, and bearing the seal of 'Nobel Prize in Literature.' The first part (the novella) is boring and the second part (the memoir), strangely incomplete and lacking. I'm in the 7th decade of my life, and I've read a lot of books, but I just didn't get this one. Lessing's prose is not difficult to read, so I kept with it until the end, hoping for some nugget of wisdom or some cohesion of all the loose ends. It was not to be.