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I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands.

The experiences absorbed through these skins too few are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia... Read Full Overview

Doris Lessing's most important work since The Golden Notebook, this extraordinary autobiography that covers the first 30 years of her life sets new standards for candor in the genre and is sure to have a lasting impact on its readers. 16 pages of photos.

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.

Doris Lessing's autobiography begins with her childhood... Read Full Overview