The Grass is Singing
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Popular Libary, 1973. Some cover, edge wear, discoloration. Pages good. Bind reinforced. Rare printing. 1950 at copyright page; 10-73 at page 287 indicating print date. Classic cover art of black man and white woman, both nude above waste in a green mist, standing back to back. An electrifying journey into the heart of a woman shadowed by fate. Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa. 287 pages.. First Popular Library Edition. Paperback. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
"A Plume book." Reprint of the 1950 ed. published by T. Y. Crowell, New York.
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013540
- Title
- The Grass is Singing
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Popular Library Edition
- Publisher
- Popular Libary
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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