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.

The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007369131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.

The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007247206
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
The experiences of two women provide the framework for an intense literary study of liberated womanhood.

Paris Stories

Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174224
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.

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.

Free Woman

Author: Lara Feigel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635570964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.

Doris Lessing Three-Book Edition: The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, The Good Terrorist

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007572638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1387

Book Description
This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels.

The Golden Notebook

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
The experiences of two women provide the framework for this intense literary study of liberated womanhood.

Contemporary Women's Writing

Author: Maroula Joannou
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719053399
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.

The Female Thing

Author: Laura Kipnis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307275779
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
From the author of the acclaimed Against Love comes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing an injured party and claiming independence. Rather than blaming the usual suspects—men, the media—Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves. Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. Is anatomy destiny after all? An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women’s ambivalence about it, The Female Thing breathes provocative new life into that age-old question.