The Sweetest Dream Paperback - 2002
by Doris Lessing
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, the decade that changed the world, "The Sweetest Dream" is a riveting look from one of the greatest writers of our time at a group of people who dared to dream--and faced the inevitable clean up afterward.
Summary
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AN EARLY EVENING in autumn, and the street below was a scene of small yellow lights that suggested intimacy, and people already bundled up for winter.
From the rear cover
Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination....
Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Details
- Title The Sweetest Dream
- Author Doris Lessing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 479
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York
- Date December 24, 2002
- ISBN 9780060937553 / 0060937556
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.28 x 0.92 in (20.35 x 13.41 x 2.34 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 12/29/2002, Page 16
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