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- Publisher: Harpercollins
- ISBN: 006093140X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101710602
- Release Date: March 1, 1999
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #247956 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #30741 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #1047 in Classics (See Top 100 Classics Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Golden Notebook"Browse more products related to "Doris Lessing"Review"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decade: it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true." "'The Golden Notebook' is Doris Lessing's most important work, and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." First lineThe two women were alone in the London flat. Publisher's noteAnna 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 tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Timed to coincide with Women's History Month, a new edition of the powerful and liberating feminist novel that raised the consciousness of an entire generation. AnnotationThis novel is widely considered to be Lessing's masterpiece. Anna Wulf, a writer living in London, attempts to conquer the chaos of her life by using five notebooks as journals: the black one deals with her life in colonial Africa, the red is her Communist experiences, the yellow is a more or less fictionalized chronicle of Anna's alter ego Ella, and the blue is a diary of Anna's day to day life. The golden notebook involves Anna's integration of herself through analysis. The novel also contains Anna's own novel, called "Free Women." Complex, layered, psychological, "The Golden Notebook" was hailed as a feminist work when it was originally published--yet its appeal goes beyond sexual politics to consider the construction, disintegration, and rebuilding of a personality in a way that has reached readers, both male and female, for many years since. If You Enjoy "The Golden Notebook (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Golden Notebook (Paperback)" by Doris Lessing (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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