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by DORIS LESSING
Doris Lessing (Banfam) St. Urbain 's Horseman by Mordecai
While she is also painstaking about domestic detail, Doris Lessing, for instance, sets a better table, and Mary McCarthy is a more telling interior decorator.
Society serves its men better than its women. But Anna-and the author -are large-spirited enough to conquer mere resentment. A greater problem, and one that, unlike Anna, many free women do not care to acknowledge, concerns love. The fact is that Anna's lovers leave her not...
A lethal Lessing story is One Off a Short List, about a failed novelist who decides he must "have" a successful woman. He chokes with jealousy watching her work calmly with her peers, but he mistakes his tears for libido. Gleaming icicles of detail fall from the page. Sizing up...