The Golden Notebook (Contemporary Fiction)

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 9626341580 ISBN 13: 9789626341582

Casa editrice: Naxos AudioBooks, 2010

Riassunto

Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer's block by writing a "golden notebook," drawing together the preoccupations of her life; and Anna's struggle to unify the various strands of her life amasses into a fascinating encyclopedia of female experience in the 50s. Read by Juliet Stevenson.

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British stage, film and television actress Juliet Stevenson ... gives a masterful performance, especially considering the wide range of characters in this book... --Joanna Theiss

First published in 1962, Doris Lessing's brilliant work defined a generation of women disillusioned by a world that relegated them to second-class citizenship. Lessing's book became a 'feminist bible' for women of the '60s, taking on the ideas of female sexuality, professional responsibility, friendship, political disenchantment and personal betrayal. Juliet Stevenson gives a no-nonsense yet deeply sensitive portrayal of writer Anna Wulf, who is trying to keep herself from falling apart by keeping four notebooks: black for her writing experiences, red for her politics, yellow for her relationships and emotions and blue for her daily accounts. As Anna explores her life, Stevenson's sharp, intelligent narration clarifies each thoughtful comment, each personal failure and each triumph. --AudioFile

Reseña del editor

One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, "The Golden Notebook" was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Authoress Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer's block by writing a comprehensive 'golden notebook' which draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative inspiration in a black book, communism in a red book, the breakdown of her marriage in a yellow book, and day-to-day emotions and dreams in a black book. Anna's struggle to unify the various strands of her life - emotional, political and professional - amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the '50s. In this authentic, taboo-breaking novel, Lessing brings the plight of women's lives, from obscurity behind closed doors, into broad daylight. "The Golden Notebook" resonates with the concerns and experiences of a great many women and is a true modern classic, thoroughly deserving of its reputation as a feminist bible. A notoriously long and complex work, it is given a new life by this - its first unabridged recording.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Naxos AudioBooks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9626341580
• ISBN 13: 9789626341582
• Rilegatura: CD de audio
• Numero di pagine: 21
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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