Landlocked: book four of the 'Children of violence' series
Material type: TextSeries: Modern ClassicPublication details: London Flamingo 1993Description: 347pISBN: 0586090010Subject(s): English Literature-Fiction | Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: "Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary." — The Observer In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness. Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | Stack | 823.914 LES/L (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 07819 |
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823.914 KUM/D Diasporic transformations:novels of V.S.Naipaul | 823.914 LES/L Love again | 823.914 LES/L Love, again | 823.914 LES/L Landlocked: book four of the 'Children of violence' series | 823.914 LES/M The making of the representative for planet 8 | 823.914 LES/M The marriages between zones three, four and five: as narrated by the chronicles of Zone three | 823.914 LES/M Martha quest: book one of the 'Children of violence' series |
"Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary." — The Observer
In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.
Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
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