Golden Notebook

Lessing''s powerful and liberating novel raised the consciousness of a generation, and continues to resonate through the world today. Its central character, Anna, is a writer, the author of one very successful novel, who keeps four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the experiences of her younger years in Africa. A red one records her political life, and growing disillusionment with Communism. In a yellow one Anna writes a novel in which the heroine relives parts of her own experience. And a blue one serves as her personal diary. In love with a macho American writer, threatened with insanity, and fragmented by her own writings, Anna finally gathers the threads of all four journals in a golden notebook.

About the author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

Product details

• Authors: Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.1999
• EAN: 9780060931407
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093140-7
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), RELIGION: Ancient, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Classics, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, FICTION: Gothic, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Russian & Former Soviet Union