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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100061582484

ISBN-139780061582486

eBay Product ID (ePID)109102613

Product Key Features

Book TitleGolden Notebook : a Novel

Number of Pages688 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Native American & Aboriginal, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorDoris Lessing

Book SeriesHarper Perennial Deluxe Editions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight21.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsThe Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women., "A work of high seriousness....Absorbing and exciting." -- Irving Howe, New Republic "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times Book Review "A rewarding book, and an unusually perceptive one." -- Milwaukee Journal "This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts." -- Baltimore Sun "No ordinary work of fiction...The technique, in a word, is brilliant." -- Saturday Review

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal823/.914

Synopsis" The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- New York Times Book Review 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 she 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 and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Noteboo k retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication., "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- New York Times Book Review 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 she 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 and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.