| Martha Quest Contributor(s): Lessing, Doris (Author) |
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ISBN: 006095969X ISBN-13: 9780060959692 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00045295 |
| Series: Book One of the Children of Violence Series |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.32" W x 8.12" (0.65 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do. -- Barbara Kingsolver 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lessing, Doris: - Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013. |