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The Grass Is Singing By Doris Lessing. 9780586089248

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Title
The Grass Is Singing
ISBN
9780586089248
Publication Year
2002
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Grass Is Singing
Item Height
197 mm
Author
Doris Lessing
Publisher
HarperCollins
Topic
Books
Item Weight
150 g
Item Width
130 mm
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing' with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding. A masterpiece of realism, 'The Grass is Singing' is a superb evocation of Africa's majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a passionate exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

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HarperCollins
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9780586089248
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Publication Year
2002
Topic
Books
Book Title
The Grass Is Singing
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Author
Doris Lessing
Format
Paperback

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197 mm
Item Weight
150 g
Item Width
130 mm

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Title_Author
Doris Lessing

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    I knew of the film that had been made of this book, although it is not available to buy. Doris Lessing's searing account of lives spent in poverty and uncertainty in the African bush makes for compelling reading. The unravelling of the main female character is heart-rending, as she gradually loses her mind, and control of her life, which ends so tragically. A must-read for anyone who knows and has lived in the bush on a farm, as I myself have done.

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