Discusses the use of pseudonyms by Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal.

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Coetzee, Joan Didion, Tadeusz Konwicki, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lorrie Moore, Doris Lessing, Patrick Chamoiseau, to name a few.

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One Mexican bookseller is doing a brisk trade with piles of Doris Lessing novels, books on Yoga and even Alan Greenspan's autobiography.

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"If you're going to write to a formula of some kind the writing is dead, which we know by having seen it so often, " Lessing says.

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The British author Doris Lessing is even more emphatic.

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This collection of work by Doris Lessing features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories, most of them, as novelist Margaret Drabble points out in her introduction, written in the realistic tradition set by Chekhov and D.

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Covering a geographic range from England to Africa (the author's home continent for most of her early years), Lessing's stories achieve a cumulative power, delivering us news about the pleasures and costs of love, marriage, politics and social life.

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