An Old Woman and Her Cat - Doris Lessing
| Автор: | Doris Lessing |
| Издательство: | HarperCollins |
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| Жанр произведения: | Современная зарубежная литература |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780007525768 |
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the conventions of society stifling – when her husband dies, and her children leave home, she embraces a marginal, unconventional existence, accompanied by her faithful cat.‘An Old Woman and Her Cat’ brilliantly combines Doris Lessing’s unforgiving examination of our society – and those it cannot accommodate and ulitmately fails – with a wonderful portrait of her favourite animal – the cat.This story also appears in the collection The Temptation of Jack Orkney.