The Good Terrorist: A Novel

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10: 0394543394 / ISBN 13: 9780394543390

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985

About this Item

Thin area of tanning along top edge o/w sharp corners, firm hinges, clean. DJ has nominal wear to corners, two small tears along top edge. TM.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1566071313734

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Good Terrorist: A Novel
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394543394
• ISBN 13: 9780394543390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure, of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the necessity of making crucial decisions

Review

‘In “The Good Terrorist” we are in the world of the subsidized sub-culture of the Marxist groupuscules of contemporary Britain...Lessing has a wit, an indignation and a narrative agility which leave few left-wing sacred cows unscathed...hugely enjoyable.’ Sunday Times

‘Doris Lessing writes about the parts other novelists cannot reach. This is a totally absorbing, subtly observed, complicated and stimulating novel.’ Observer

‘“The Good Terrorist” is a work of acute intelligence, incisive and compelling...it shows Doris Lessing at her mature best.’ Listener

Praise for Doris Lessing:

‘Doris Lessing has changed the way we think about the world.’ Blake Morrison

‘Thank goodness for Doris Lessing. While the rest of us flounder about noisily in the muddy waters of life, she never fails to expose with startling clarity the essential folly of our dreams and good intentions.’ Kate Chisholm, Evening Standard

‘She’s up there in the pantheon with Balzac and George Eliot. We’re lucky she’s still writing.’ Lisa Appignanesi, Independent