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Walking in the Shade: My Autobiography, 1949-1962, vol. 2.(Brief Article)
Doris Lessing. HarperCollins, $27.50 (416p) ISBN 0-06-018295-4
More casually written and organized than the superb Under My Skin, this second volume of Lessing's memoirs contains acute, brutally flank comments on topics from book publishing to left-wing activism. She opens with her arrival in London four years after the end of WWIL A 30-year-old single mother with a two-year-old son, Lessing left Southern Rhodesia in search of a place and a means to write freely. Chapters are named for the locations in which she lived--Denbigh Road, Church Street, Warwick Road, Langham Street--and her narrative is similarly episodic. She covers her love affairs, years of psychotherapy, …
