The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060953462 / ISBN 13: 9780060953461

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (edition ), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (edition )
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060953462
• ISBN 13: 9780060953461
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.

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.

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.