The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels is collection of four short stories published in 2003 by 2007 Nobel laureate Doris Lessing . The 2013 Australian-French film Adore (alternatively known as Adoration) is based on the story The Grandmothers. Doris Lessing 3.55 2,349 ratings265 reviews 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.
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Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing's unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition. 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. The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing From the book jacket: The Grandmothers Two women, close friends, fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, promising a respectable old age. Victoria and the Staveneys Doris Lessing The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels Kindle Edition by Doris Lessing (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 4.1 131 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $13.49 32 Used from $4.00 7 New from $9.49 8 Collectible from $9.99 by Doris Lessing ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 9, 2004 When you're dealing with an author whose track record spans a half-century and paradigm-altering works like The Golden. bookshelf shop now Four novellas demonstrating that 84-year-old author ( The Sweetest Dream, 2002, etc.) still boasts a range and power few writers half her age can muster.
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Overview "Here is yet more evidence that this writer of enormous insight and prodigious talent should have won the Nobel Prize decades ago." — Chicago Tribune Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing's unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition. Hardcover $81.86 17 Used from $3.68 3 New from $81.86 4 Collectible from $33.33 Paperback $14.47 16 Used from $3.78 10 New from $12.05 Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94. Bibliographic information Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be. With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story, 'The Grandmothers', is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love.
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Lessing, Doris May, 1919-Publication date 2003 Publisher New York : HarperCollins Publishers Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. The grandmothers -- Victoria and the Staveneys -- The reason for it -- A love child Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-08-29 20:33:08 Boxid IA142819. By Doris Lessing. Jan. 25, 2004; On either side of a little promontory loaded with cafés and restaurants was a frisky but decorous sea, nothing like the real ocean that roared and rumbled outside.
ADD TO CART. Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing's unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition 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, vow. Doris Lessing's latest collection of stories, The Grandmothers, deals in the dangers of self-delusion Maya Jaggi Fri 21 Nov 2003 20.26 EST Doris Lessing
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By Doris Lessing 311 pages. HarperCollins. $23.95. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have nothing on the characters in ''The Grandmothers.'' The heroines of the title story in Doris Lessing's. From the 2004 HarperCollins edition of The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivaled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.. The Grandmothers. Two women, close friends, fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them.
