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The grandmothers : four short novels / Doris Lessing.
Van Pelt Library PR6023.E833 G69 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2003]
- Summary:
- In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.
- Contents:
- The grandmothers
- Victoria and the Staveneys
- The reason for it
- A love child.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0060530103
- 0060530111
- OCLC:
- 53315401
- Online:
- Publisher description
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