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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Inc
Publication date
May 1, 1975
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780394496337
ISBN-10
0394496337
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$13.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and left in her care. A strange, precocious adolescent, drawn to the tribal streetlife and its barbaric rituals, she is unafraid of the harsh world outside, while our narrator retreats into her hidden world where reality fades and the past is revisited ...
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Random House Inc (May 1, 1975); titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor"
9780394496337 | details & prices | List price $13.95
About: In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy
About: In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy
Paperback
from Vintage Books (April 1, 1988); titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor"
9780394757599 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
from Vintage Books (April 1, 1988); titled "The Memoirs of a Survivor"
9780394757599 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
With Mary Man-Kong |
from Bantam Books (July 1, 1981)
9780553228175 | details & prices | List price $3.95
This edition also contains Barbie Spring 2016 Movie Pictureback
This edition also contains Barbie Spring 2016 Movie Pictureback
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