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(0)Doris Lessing
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Language
English
Description
A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life. The Golden Notebook is the one in which, struggling to retain her sanity, she brings these strands together.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Africa under white rule, [this book is] both a ... chronicle of human disintegration and an ... understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses.......
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
"African Laughter is a book about memory. Lessing evokes her childhood on an isolated farm in the bush, her parents and brother. And she explores the often unexpected ways in which elements of the past --African traditions and white customs--survive and knit themselves into contemporary life. A passionate, profound and utterly original book, African Laughter uses memory and reminiscence together with recent experience to create an impressionistic...