The Grass Is Singing Lessing Doris
"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. One can only marvel." -- New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is… Celý popis ↓
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"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. One can only marvel." -- New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant 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.
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 Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant.
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- Harper Perennial Modern Classi