Doris Lessing
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Walking in the Shade covers the years 1949 to 1962, from Lessing's arrival in London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, under her arm to the publication of her most famous work of fiction, The Golden Notebook. This was the period of the Cold War, a poisonously political time, but Doris Lessing reminds us - in perhaps the book's most striking achievement - of what has been forgotten: that it was a time...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1964-1966.
Language
English
Description
A sequence of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The novels "are strongly influenced by Lessing's rejection of a domestic family role and her involvement with communism." Lessing identifies the sequence as a Bildungsroman. The series follows the life of protagonist...
24) The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three)
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
"The wealthy, white, well-intentioned, family of one of her schoolmates takes in an eight-year-old black child, named Victoria, for a night. The experience haunts her for years to come, shaping her desires and offering a mirage of privilege that she dreams of but finds impossible to attain. As an adult, she drifts from job to job, but then unexpectedly reconnects with the family's youngest son in an encounter that will reshape her life yet again."...
