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21%OFFDoris May Lessing - Martha Quest (Children of Violence) - 9780586089989 - V9780586089989
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Martha Quest (Children of Violence)

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Description for Martha Quest (Children of Violence) Paperback. The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 25. Weight in Grams: 256.

The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.

When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen living with her parents on a poor African farm. She is eager for life and resentful of the deadening narrowness of home, and escapes to take a job as a typist in the local capital. Here, in the ‘big city’, she encounters the real life she ... Read more

Martha’s Africa is Doris Lessing’s Africa: the restrictive life of the farm; the atmosphere of racial fear and antagonism; the superficial sophistication of the city. And both Martha and Lessing are Children of Violence: the generation that was born of one world war and came of age in another, whose abrasive relationships with their parents, with one another, and with society are laid bare brilliantly by a writer who understands them better than any other.

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Product Details

Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780586089989
SKU
V9780586089989
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Doris May Lessing
Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked ... Read more

Reviews for Martha Quest (Children of Violence)
‘I read the “Children of Violence” novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.’ Barbara Kingsolver ‘The “Children of ... Read more

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