Martha Quest

Lessing, Doris May

ISBN 10: 0452253535 / ISBN 13: 9780452253537

Published by Plume Books, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Martha Quest
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452253535
• ISBN 13: 9780452253537
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature/Fiction

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Synopsis

Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

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