Name: The Memoirs of a Survivor
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)

Doris Lessing

Uses the daily activities of one doctor to describe the work of a pediatrician.

The Memoirs of a Survivor

In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy.

jack

this book is so good! lessing leaves u unable to get your footing in the world, but with a sense that this world is not too unlike the one we live in.

 i wonder if this book served as inspiration for house of leaves?

Sarah Escorsa

I really did give this book a really hard try, but eveytime I picked it up and started reading it, I just couldn't get past the first 20 pages, so I just decided to give up...

The Memoirs of a Survivor

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