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Lessing in London
Schinto, Jeanne | October 13, 1997 issue

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This article appraises the book "Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962," by Doris Lessing. Walking in the Shade is chock-full of piquant accounts of her friendships with numerous writers and artists, especially those in the theater arts--Kenneth Tynan is one, described as being fragile, vulnerable, like an elegant gray silky moth, with his large prominent greeny eyes and his bony face. She also tells many stones of political friends and foes. At one point she had thought of putting all the politics into one chapter, so that those disinclined might simply skip it. But, she concluded, since politics permeated everything in those years, so it should permeate the book.

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WALKING in the Shade (Book); LESSING, Doris May, 1919-; FRIENDSHIP; ENEMIES (Persons); POLITICS, Practical; BOOKS & reading
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