Description: Timed to coincide with Women's History Month, a new edition of the powerful and liberating feminist novel that raised the consciousness of an entire generation.
Brief description:
Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.
Review Quotes:
"Lessing writes about her own sex with the unrelenting intensity of Simone de Beauvoir, and about sex itself with the frankness and detail of John O." - Washington Post
"A work of high seriousness . . . The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decade; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." - Irving Howe, The New Republican
"No ordinary work of fiction...the technique, in a word, is brilliant, and places Doris Lessing in the forefront of British novelists." - Saturday Review
"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decades; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." - Irving Howe, New Republic
"This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts." - Baltimore Sun