Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by:
Doris Lessing (author)
Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with...
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Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060959692 (006095969X)
ASIN: 006095969X
Publish date: 2001-01-23
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Womens,
Nobel Prize,
Fiction
Rebellious, seventeen year old Martha's mother doesn't approve of the way she handles her finances. "Well, it's my money!" snaps the daughter. Mom helpfully points out that she's not yet of age, and if it came down to a court case the judge would rule that she was within her rights in stopping Marth...
Part of The Year of Reading Women group reads. Overall, I like Doris Lessing. The Golden Notebook was lovely, The Good Terrorist was interesting, and I'd been meaning to get back into her work for a while. A multi-volume read as part of a group of Goodreaders? Sure, I'll take that on. Martha Quest, ...
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