The Golden Notebook

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The Golden Notebook by Lessing, Doris May, 9780061582486
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  • ISBN: 9780061582486 | 0061582484
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 4/22/2010

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Anna 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 resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

“A work of high seriousness....Absorbing and exciting.” -Irving Howe, New Republic

“This exciting writer has tried much, aimed high, and has paraded a galaxy of gifts.” -Baltimore Sun

“No ordinary work of fiction…The technique, in a word, is brilliant.” -Saturday Review

“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.” -Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times Book Review

“A rewarding book, and an unusually perceptive one.” -Milwaukee Journal