Critical Praise

" The life she describes is heroric...yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel. "

——San Francisco Chronical

" The story couldn't be better told. She is there, marvelously urgent, translucently sincere--Doris Lessing in person. "

——Washington Post Book World

" Justifies by her extraordinary variety of her achievements, her exceptional memory and her facility as a writer. "

——New York Times Book Review

"You can't help but admire her independence of thought and feeling and her willingness to ovberturn all the precepts upon which her very existence has been predicted. "

——Los Angeles Times Book Review