Lessing, Doris
Summary: A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 1993
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Summary: An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Contents: The grandmothers -- Victoria and the Staveneys -- The reason for it -- A love child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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Summary: "This is a tale of love--and of the ancient war between men and women--that beguiles and charms like a true fable. It follows Shikasta, which Time magazine hailed as "Dazzling. . . .At once a brief history of the world, a tract against human destructiveness, an ode to the natural beauties of this earth, and a hymn to the music of the spheres." This second book brings us into the territory of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1980
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Summary: Feeling trapped and alienated by her husband, Martha Quest must choose between the security of marriage and the sacrifices of independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1997
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Summary: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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Summary: In an ancient society solely populated by women whose childbirth cycles are controlled by the moon, community harmony is thrown into jeopardy by the unheralded birth of a boy, whose existence brings into awareness the role of gender in virtually every aspect of daily life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1983
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Summary: In a world destroyed by environmental damage, a people trek north in search of the remnants of civilization. They include two children and it is through their eyes that the novel analyzes the real meaning of civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1979
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1980
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Contents: Schlueter, P. Introduction.--The small personal voice.--Preface to The golden notebook.--Newquist, R. Interview with Doris Lessing.--Raskin, J. Doris Lessing at Stony Brook: an interview.--Howe, F. A talk with Doris Lessing.--My father.--Afterword to The story of an African farm, by Olive Schreiner.--Allah be praised.--In the world, not of it.--Vonnegut's responsibility.--Ant's eye view: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974