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"[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly.... a stirring novel"--San Francisco Chronicle
Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table--her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. It's London in the 1960s and everything is being challenged and changed.
But what is being tolerated? Comrade Johnny delivers political tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Johnny's mother funds all but finds she can embrace only one lost little girl--Sylvia, who leaves for a South African village dying of AIDS.
These are the people dreaming the Sixties into being and who, on the morning after, woke to find they were the ones taxed with cleaning up and making good.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/24/2002
Pages: 479
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.28w x 0.92d
ISBN13: 9780060937553
ISBN10: 0060937556
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Friendship
- Fiction | Women