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In Pursuit of the English, by Doris Lessing. Jaunty candid-camera shots of London's lower depths.
In Pursuit of the English, by Doris Lessing. Candid-camera shots of London's lower depths, a world of poor but jaunty spivs, strumpets and shopgirls who can only make ends meet by cutting corners.
This book is low comedy as well as reporting of a very high order. Like most true comedy, it is also edged with sadness, but every page bears the mark of truth and is as unfailingly readable as first-rate fiction. Author Doris Lessing was born in Persia of British...
Running the house, once a good enough home but now much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the...
The virgin shopgirl who finally discovers the love she has been missing, the deserted wife (or were they ever married?) who throws herself down two flights of stairs to induce an abortion, the incomparable spiv who is closer to the heart of modern England than anything Kipling had in mind...