The Grandmothers Four Short No

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060530111 / ISBN 13: 9780060530112

Editore: Harper Perennial, 2005

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• Titolo: The Grandmothers Four Short No
• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0060530111
• ISBN 13: 9780060530112
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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“Here is yet more evidence that this writer of enormous insight and prodigious talent should have won the Nobel Prize decades ago.” — Chicago Tribune

Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.

In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.