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Alfred and Emily
Alfred and Emily
Author: Doris Lessing
I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. — In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Lau...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780060834883
ISBN-10: 0060834889
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Pages: 288
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  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Harper
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: 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.
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