Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 177089022X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Author: Doris May Lessing
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887845215
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief.The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007544472
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today.

The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061582484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694

Book Description
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. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

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Languages : en
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Prison Ministry

Author: Lennie Spitale
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805424830
Category : Church work with prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Empowering any pastor, educator, or lay leader in doing effective prison ministry by providing a thorough inside-out view of prison life.

Inside This Place, Not of It

Author: Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.

The Grass is Singing

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435901318
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

The Fifth Child

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.

The Summer Before the Dark

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007383576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.