The Grass Is Singing

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10: 0140015256 / ISBN 13: 9780140015256

Published by Penguin, 1977

About this Item

1977 Penguin reprint, covers creased, bookseller's marks. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

Seller Inventory # pb346-825-0829

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Grass Is Singing
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140015256
• ISBN 13: 9780140015256
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books > Fiction > Classics

About this title

Synopsis

The author's debut novel, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication. From the author of MARA AND DANN, WALKING IN THE SHADE and UNDER MY SKIN.

Review

‘Original and striking...full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognised.’ New Statesman

‘Doris Lessing responds more passionately than most writers to people or situations: often she responds with hate or rancour, but always with passion. In “The Grass is Singing”, you can feel the dynamo-like throb of a formidable talent; by its side, most novels of 1950 look like crochet-work.’ The Times

‘“The Grass is Singing” focuses on the blighted life of a woman whose spirit is destroyed by a disastrous marriage and by an environment to which she couldn’t respond. More than any other white African writer of her generation, Doris Lessing is aware of the seductive cruelty of colonialism, and is one of our strongest, fiercest voices against injustice, racism and sexual hypocrisy.’ Independent on Sunday