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The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics) 🔍
Lessing, Doris Harper Collins, 2012
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Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy. *** The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's classic first novel. It is the story of the murder of a poor white woman by her black houseboy. It is a portrait of the woman's marriage to a luckless farmer, a union doomed to failure before they had even met. And it is an evocation of the country in which they lived – Rhodesia. In The Grass Is Singing, the harsh, majestic beauty and the remorseless social values of white Southern Africa come violently, brilliantly to life. 'Original and striking... full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognized' – NEW STATESMAN 'A first novel of astonishing accomplishment' –
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Doris May Lessing
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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New American Library
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Longman Publishing
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Mills & Boon
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Heinemann
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Flamingo
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Pavilion
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Harper Perennial modern classics, First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, New York, 2008
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1st Perennial Classics ed., New York, New York State, 2000
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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United States, United States of America
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New York, New York State, 1976
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50 Anniversary Ed, PS, 2000
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Nachdr, New York, 2002
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Feb 29, 2000
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London, 2000
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1, 1999
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"A Plume book."
Reprint of the 1950 ed. published by T. Y. Crowell, New York.
Alternative description
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.
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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. Set In South Africa Under White Rule, [this Book Is] Both A ... Chronicle Of Human Disintegration And An ... 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.... Mary And Moses -- Master And Slave -- Are Trapped In A Web Of Mounting Attraction And Repulsion. -back Cover. Doris Lessing. First Published In 1950.
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Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a chronicle of human disintegration, an understated social critique, and a depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate. 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. 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, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.-Adpated from back cover
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Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of The Grass is Singing, her first novel, with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. This edition is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication
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The newspaper did not say much.
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2017-07-01
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