The Golden Notebook (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061582484 ISBN 13: 9780061582486

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- New York Times Book Review

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

About this title

Review:

"A rewarding book, and an unusually perceptive one."--Milwaukee Journal

"This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts."--Baltimore Sun

"No ordinary work of fiction...The technique, in a word, is brilliant."--Saturday Review

"A work of high seriousness....Absorbing and exciting."--Irving Howe, New Republic

"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women."--Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061582484
• ISBN 13: 9780061582486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688