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Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Four-Gated City, Paperback by Lessing, Doris May, ISBN 0060976675, ISBN-13 9780060976675, Brand New, Free shipping in the US After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060976675
ISBN-139780060976675
eBay Product ID (ePID)1444136
Product Key Features
Book TitleFour-Gated City
Number of Pages672 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicPsychological, Literary, Biographical
GenreFiction
AuthorDoris Lessing
Book SeriesChildren of Violence Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-031487
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"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 "A powerful, prophetic, mysterious work, a truly extraordinary novel....The insanity of the 20th century...[and] the mystery of the self, explored brilliantly here as it is in her other masterpiece The Golden Notebook....Here is a book not to be read, but experienced." -- Joyce Carol Oates "One of the most remarkable feats in contemporary fiction." -- Chicago Daily News, 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., A powerful, prophetic, mysterious work, a truly extraordinary novel....The insanity of the 20th century...[and] the mystery of the self, explored brilliantly here as it is in her other masterpiece The Golden Notebook....Here is a book not to be read, but experienced.
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Series Volume Number5
Dewey Decimal823/.9/14
SynopsisDorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest., "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 Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.
LC Classification NumberPR6023.E833F6 1995
