Martha Quest Format: Paperback

Lessing, Doris M.

ISBN 10: 006095969X / ISBN 13: 9780060959692

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, 2001

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Unread copy in mint condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Martha Quest Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006095969X
• ISBN 13: 9780060959692
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do."  — Barbara Kingsolver

Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing — and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

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.