The Memoirs of a SurvivorBy: Doris Lessing 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. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present,