Martha Quest (The Children of Violence, Book 1)

Type

Book

Authors

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10

0060976667

ISBN 13

9780060976668

Tags

Fiction, Cultural, Africa, Novels, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Coming of Age, young adult

Description

Martha Quest is a passionate and intelligent young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood to marriage. She is a romantic idealist in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct bared to experience. For her, this is a time of solidarity reading, daydreams, dancing--and the first disturbing encounters with sex. Martha Quest is the first novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive, all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century. - from Amzon

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