{"product_id":"9780060834890","title":"Alfred and Emily","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eLessing, Doris\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHarper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10\/20\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this profoundly moving book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, she imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the devastating global conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here I still am,\" says Lessing, \"trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free.\" Triumphantly, with Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Unique Hybrid of Fiction and Memoir:\u003c\/b\u003e Lessing splits the book into two powerful halves—first imagining the lives her parents might have lived, then confronting the stark reality of what was.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Great War’s Enduring Shadow:\u003c\/b\u003e A searing account of how World War I irrevocably damaged two ordinary people, shaping a family’s destiny for generations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Alternate History of the Heart:\u003c\/b\u003e What if there had been no war? The book opens with a deeply felt novella that gives her parents the happiness they never had.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Nobel Laureate’s Most Personal Work:\u003c\/b\u003e The acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e turns her formidable intellect and insight inward to understand her own origins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43368150139135,"sku":"9780060834890","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780060834890_s600x595.jpg?v=1779893275","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780060834890","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}