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The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition

Doris Lessing

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one records her political life, her disillusionment with Communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer, threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Feb 3rd, 1999
  • Pages: 672
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 1.70in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9780060931407
  • Categories: ClassicsLiteraryWomen

About the Author

Lessing, Doris: -

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.

Praise for this book

"Lessing writes about her own sex with the unrelenting intensity of Simone de Beauvoir, and about sex itself with the frankness and detail of John O." -- Washington Post

"A work of high seriousness . . . The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decade; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." -- Irving Howe, The New Republican

"No ordinary work of fiction...the technique, in a word, is brilliant, and places Doris Lessing in the forefront of British novelists." -- Saturday Review

"This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts." -- Baltimore Sun

"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decades; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." -- Irving Howe, New Republic