A Proper Marriage (Children of Violence) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452265770 ISBN 13: 9780452265776

Publisher: Plume, 1991

Synopsis

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From the Back Cover

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.

"A Proper Marriage" is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

About the Author

Doris Lessing is 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 are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452265770
• ISBN 13: 9780452265776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352