The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches

By Doris Lessing

Book Overview

"Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both pitiless and compassionate." -- Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the pieces are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women and men, as in the rich and emotionally complex title story, in which she uncovers a more parlous reality behind the façade of the most conventional relationship between the sexes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060924179
• ISBN13: 9780060924171
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The way of Women

I love this book. Doris Lessing described every true feeling of women's innermost heart, happiness, anger and sorrow. Every short story presents different feeling of different events and ages. Women are so sentimental, so easy to be touched and have so much affection. Doris didn't leave words for ending in each story; however, she left the room for our imagination and we all know what is going to happen next.