The Grass Is Singing
by Lessing, Doris
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- Paperback
- first
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- Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0140015256
- ISBN 13
- 9780140015256
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A 1st Penguin ed. good- paperback, minor defects on cov. as in image, spine soiled 7 chipped on tail, text good+ with signs of aging.
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique.
Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique.
Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
Synopsis
"A Plume book." Reprint of the 1950 ed. published by T. Y. Crowell, New York.
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- Title
- The Grass Is Singing
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Penguin
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140015256
- ISBN 13
- 9780140015256
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- South Africa, racial,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- 218p. 18x11cm. 200gr.
- Language
- English
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