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Martha Quest Paperback - 2001

by Doris Lessing


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"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.

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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.

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  • Title Martha Quest
  • Author Doris Lessing
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, NY USA
  • Date 2001-01
  • ISBN 9780060959692 / 006095969X
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.32 x 0.84 in (20.62 x 13.51 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Southern Africa
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Young women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00045295
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • People Weekly, 10/29/2007, Page 52
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