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Sweetest Dreamby Doris Lessing
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination.... Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward — from one of the greatest writers of our time. Review:?[THE SWEETEST DREAM] is a beautifully made book.?(Financial Times [London] ) Review:?Lessing?s most engrossing novel in many years.?(London Times Literary Supplement ) Review:?Irresistibly alluring ? [THE SWEETEST DREAM is] one of Lessing?s most generous works.?(Book Magazine) Review:"Lessing's novel manages to convey the hopeful idealism of the young without mocking it, as well as the heartbreaking disillusionment of the old without succumbing to sourness. That she does both without sacrificing her essential optimism that progress is not only worth working toward, but also possible, is truly remarkable." San Francisco Chronicle Review:?Lessing?s sage, level gaze is everywhere bought to bear ? [THE SWEETEST DREAM] is solidly wrought, deeply felt.?(Publishers Weekly (starred review)) Review:?Irresistibly alluring ? [THE SWEETEST DREAM is] one of Lessing?s most generous works.?(Book Magazine) Review:?[Lessing?s] acute political and artistic awareness makes her vision of our time rich and almost always freshly perceptive.?(The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)) Synopsis:Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table--her sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and fresh-off-the-street friends. Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world, "The Sweetest Dream" is a riveting look from one of the greatest writers of our time at a group of people who dared to dream--and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward. About the AuthorDoris Lessing was born to British parents in Persia in 1919 and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, short stories, reportage, poems, and plays--and is considered among the most important writers of the postwar era. Her most recent works include two volumes of autobiography, Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade, and a novel, Mara and Dann. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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