Debbie and Julie Summary
Doris Lessing

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Debbie and Julie Summary

"Debbie and Julie," a matter-of-fact fictional account of teenage pregnancy, opens Doris Lessing's 1989 collection of stories and sketches about London titled The Real Thing. This volume, written toward the end of Lessing's long, varied, and prolific career, represents a return to the realistic style with which she first gained her literary reputation in the 1950s and '60s. Though The Real Thing is not considered to be among Lessing's most significant works, critics...

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