The Cleft
Lessing, Doris:
ISBN 10: 0007233434 ISBN 13: 9780007233434
Published by Fourth Estate, 2007
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In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child—a boy—the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy.In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.
About the Author: Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing' was published in 1950, and since then her international reputation has flourished. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Summer Before the Dark', and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. Her most recent works include 'Love, Again' and two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin', and 'Walking in the Shade'.
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Title: The Cleft
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Wie neu
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Published by
Fourth Estate, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0007233434
ISBN 13: 9780007233434
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Fourth Estate, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean; corners sharp. Clean endsheets. Faint toning to top edge of textblock near spine; edges otherwise clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good jacket. Signed without inscription by Lessing on title page. The Cleft was the last novel to be published during Lessing's lifetime, the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Seller Inventory # 32920