Landlocked (Children of Violence) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586021892 ISBN 13: 9780586021897

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1969

Synopsis

287 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The Whole World Seems To Have The Post War Blues In The Aftermath Of World War II And Martha Quest Is No Exception. Increasingly Disillusioned With The Communist Faith She Once So Fervently Embraced, Tiring Of Her Neurotic Lover Thomas, Martha Embodies The Plight Of Liberated 20th Century Womanhood.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0586021892
• ISBN 13: 9780586021897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288