The Grass Is Singing

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0586089241 / ISBN 13: 9780586089248

Published by Paladin, 1989

About this Item

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Seller Inventory # GOR001295375

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Grass Is Singing
• Publisher: Paladin
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0586089241
• ISBN 13: 9780586089248
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 82 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of ‘The Grass is Singing’ with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature.

Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding.

A masterpiece of realism, ‘The Grass is Singing’ is a superb evocation of Africa’s majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a passionate exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

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 Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.