A Proper Marriage - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452257891 ISBN 13: 9780452257894

Publisher: Plume, 1970

Synopsis

A beatiful repackaging with a modern and striking new author style for one of the most important writers of the last 50 years

About this title

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

‘Few writers spring such surprises as Doris Lessing. She trusts her own feelings absolutely, and has the rare power of putting feelings straight onto the page, more directly perhaps than any other writer, so directly that the effect is sometimes like a physical blow.’ Independent

‘A writer of real importance, Doris Lessing knows where to start and where to stop, knowledge which most writers take a lifetime to acquire.’ Spectator

‘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

From the Back Cover

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.

"A Proper Marriage" is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452257891
• ISBN 13: 9780452257894
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 380