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Doris-may-lessing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452257751 ISBN 13: 9780452257757

Synopsis

The fourth book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The others are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "A Ripple from the Storm" and "The Four-Gated City".

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Review

‘I read the “Children of Violence” novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.’ Barbara Kingsolver

‘The “Children of Violence” series gives an astounding compression of a total, coherent vision, as if Doris Lessing knew all along where it would end.’ The Times

About the Author

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark and Memoirs of a Survivor. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, Under my Skin and Walking in the Shade. Her most recent novel is The Cleft.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452257751
• ISBN 13: 9780452257757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288