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The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
DORIS LESSINGis one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel,The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels areThe Golden Notebook,The Fifth ChildandMemoirs of a Survivor. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography,Under my SkinandWalking in the Shade. Her most recent novel wasAlfred and Emily. Doris Lessing passed away on 17 November 2013.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of The Grass is Singing with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature.Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding.A masterpiece of realism, The Grass is Singing is a superb evocation of Africas majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a passionate exploration of the ideology of white supremacy. The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessings first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780007498802
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