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Description for The Cleft
hardcover. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, with short tear to dust jacket and Ex Libris stamp to half title. Remains a very nice reading copy
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of an overshadowing mountain. The Clefts have no need nor knowledge of men -- childbirth is controlled, like ... Read more
Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of an overshadowing mountain. The Clefts have no need nor knowledge of men -- childbirth is controlled, like ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fourth Estate London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007233434
SKU
KMO0000391
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Doris Lessing
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Cleft
'Lessing skilfully manipulates multiple perspectives!a bold, inventive and challenging book from a writer who continues to enlighten and astonish as she approaches her tenth decade.' The Independent 'The author's reach continues to thrill!there's witchery in the Old She yet.' Daily Telegraph 'a strange novel, one of her strangest, but it lures one ineluctably into its toils!Lessing has a ... Read more