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The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition (Perennial Classics)

by Doris May Lessing

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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

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"No ordinary work of fiction....The technique, in a word, is brilliant." Saturday Review

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"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

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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.

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About the Author

Doris Lessing was born in 1919. The Grass Is Singing was published in 1950, and since then she has gone on to publish more than fifty books. Named a Companion of Honour and a Companion of Literature in Great Britain, she has been awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize, Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize, the International Catalunya Award, and the S. T. Dupont Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in North London.
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Never have I read a novel that explores the nature of relationships between men and women with such an astute straightforwardness. Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" is a masterpiece because upon a first read it will undoubtedly change each reader, although its brilliance demands multiple readings; it is a masterpiece because it's a complete portrait of a woman of depth (main character Anna Wolf), and it is a masterpiece because it reveals, through Anna’s story, the sum of our knowing that we live hard in our present moments, entrenched—heels dug in—but life will always continue to fly forward, uprooting and changing us into someone new. Sometimes we forget there's always another corner to round until that final corner. "The Golden Notebook" is a must-read.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060931407
Subtitle:
Perennial Classics Edition
Introduction:
Lessing, Doris May
Author:
by Doris M. Lessing
Author:
Lessing, Doris M.
Author:
Lessing, Doris May
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
London (england)
Subject:
London
Subject:
Feminists
Subject:
Women novelists, English
Subject:
Diary fiction
Subject:
London (England) Fiction.
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Perennial Classics
Publication Date:
February 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
672
Dimensions:
8.10x5.37x1.60 in. 1.26 lbs.
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