A ripple from the storm
Lessing, Doris May, 1919 - 2013
A ripple from the storm / Doris Lessing - 1st HarperPerennial ed - New York : HarperPerennial , 1995, c1958. - 334 p. ; 21 cm. - Children of violence series, Book 3. .
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a "Ripple from the Storm," Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest' s personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa. A "Ripple from the Storm" is the third novel in Doris Lessing' s classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
9780060976644
95031488
British---Africa, southern----Fiction
Women---Zimbabwe----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6023.E833 / R5 1995
FIC LES
A ripple from the storm / Doris Lessing - 1st HarperPerennial ed - New York : HarperPerennial , 1995, c1958. - 334 p. ; 21 cm. - Children of violence series, Book 3. .
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a "Ripple from the Storm," Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest' s personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa. A "Ripple from the Storm" is the third novel in Doris Lessing' s classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
9780060976644
95031488
British---Africa, southern----Fiction
Women---Zimbabwe----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR6023.E833 / R5 1995
FIC LES