The Golden Notebook

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060975903 / ISBN 13: 9780060975906

Published by HarperPerennial, New York, 1994

About this Item

First Printing of PB edition. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine. Spine lightly concave but uncreased, corners bent; square, binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. The Author's most important work. xxix, 623pp.

Seller Inventory # 043841

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Golden Notebook
• Publisher: HarperPerennial, New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060975903
• ISBN 13: 9780060975906
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one records her political life, her disillusionment with Communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer, threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Review

A feminist landmark, this big, ambitious novel tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life; the golden one is the one in which, struggling to retain her sanity, she brings these strands together.