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  1. The Memoirs of a Survivor is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. It was first published in 1974 by Octagon Press, and Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. in 1975. It was made into a film in 1981, starring Julie Christie and Nigel Hawthorne, and directed by David Gladwell.

    • Doris May Lessing
    • 1974
  2. Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell, with some scenes filmed at the location of Argyle Street, Norwich. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. [4] It is based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Doris Lessing .

  3. Jan 1, 1974 · Doris Lessing. 3.59. 3,368 ratings318 reviews. In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child.

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  4. Oct 17, 2011 · The memoirs of a survivor by Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013. Publication date 1979 Publisher New York : Bantam Books Collection

  5. Memoirs of a Survivor: Directed by David Gladwell. With Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings. Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion.

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    • Sci-Fi
    • David Gladwell
    • 1981-09
  6. In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought...

  7. Apr 12, 1988 · Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    • Doris Lessing