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The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Memoirs of a Survivor
Author: Doris Lessing
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ISBN-13: 9780553125818
ISBN-10: 0553125818
Publication Date: 1979
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Publisher: Bantam books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"A major work, one that well proves that her vigor, originalty and importance as a novelist is undiminished." -- Cleveland Press

This is the bizarre journal of a woman. The time is the Future. The setting, Modern Society, a nightmare of fouled-up telephones and broken-down buses, of scarce water, polluted air and adolescent gangs scavenging in deserted streets. The woman, guardian of a twelve-year-old child, is making her escape from the world of reality into the world of an imaginary past.
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Great book. Another excellent female driven story by Lessing. Here a mother cares for her daughter in a post apocalyptic world. Quite bizarre and yet familiar at the same time.