{"product_id":"9780007518319_a-small-personal-voice","title":"A Small Personal Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice. In an age of committee art, public art, people may begin to feel again a need for the small personal voice; and this will feed confidence into writers and, with confidence because of the knowledge of being needed, the warmth and humanity, and love of people which is essential for a great age of literature.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of her non-fiction, Lessing’s own life and work are the subject of a number of pieces, as are fellow writers such as Isak Dinesen and Kurt Vonnegut. There are essays on Malcolm X and Sufism, discussions of the responsibility of the artist, thoughts on her exile from Southern Rhodesia, and a fascinating memoir of her fraught relationship with her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLit throughout by Doris Lessing's desire for truth-telling, ‘A Small Personal Voice’ is both an important collection of writings by and a self-portrait of one of the most significant writers of the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doris Lessing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284925530261,"sku":"9780007518319","price":10.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007518319.png?v=1776992221","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007518319_a-small-personal-voice","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}