The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1992 • Harper

The Real Thing - Stories and Sketches by Doris Lessing [published in the UK as "London Observed"] U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1992] HARPER COLLINS Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket is in beautiful shape with only minor trace wear. Now housed in a HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself is mint and reads like new. The Real Thing is the first new work of fiction from Doris Lessing since her highly acclaimed novel, The Fifth Child. The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the pieces are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its populations from everywhere in the world, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to streets so old they have forgotten they ever had anything to do with nature. In “Among the Roses”, a near chance meeting in Regent’s P