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The Golden Notebook

By Doris Lessing

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| Hardcover | 9780718109707

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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the hContinue

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

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  • Women against Men

    The Golden Notebook takes one back not only in time but in consciousness. It is just 20 years old, and yet, reread from the standpoint of 1982, it seems to belong to an immensely confusing period, weighed down by the anxieties of a decade that now se ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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    oh africa

    a bit hard going in the beginning, but oh so worth the effort. A truly beautiful book - amazing writing style, you travel far ...

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    Gail Paris said on Oct 16, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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    1. to be frankly i won't have picked down the book if i knew it is a 600 pages novel before ordering.

    2. can't say i really love it. can't say it's not good either. not bcoz it's lessing. but just bcoz this kind is not my cup of tea.

    3. the structure of the novel is intriguing. that our ... (continue)

    1. to be frankly i won't have picked down the book if i knew it is a 600 pages novel before ordering.

    2. can't say i really love it. can't say it's not good either. not bcoz it's lessing. but just bcoz this kind is not my cup of tea.

    3. the structure of the novel is intriguing. that our heroine keeps differnt notebooks which dedicated to different slices of her life seperately. the golden notebook is her effort to pull all her parts together.

    4. isn't is funny to see how intellectuals in 50s split up among themselves and split up in their own selfs. the world's really changing too fast? ideology is nthg now.

    5. the part i like best in this book is the endless annoying interrogation against her own self.

    6. the stories inside story are inpsiring.

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    fruit said on Oct 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Hard work, but worth it...

    "Everything was cracking up... we live in a fast-fragmenting culture...Any kind of singlemindedness, narrowness, obsession was bound to lead to mental disorder, if not madness. (This may be observed most easily in religion and politics.)" D. Lessing

    ..She has written about the clash of culture ... (continue)

    "Everything was cracking up... we live in a fast-fragmenting culture...Any kind of singlemindedness, narrowness, obsession was bound to lead to mental disorder, if not madness. (This may be observed most easily in religion and politics.)" D. Lessing

    ..She has written about the clash of cultures, the gross injustices of racial [and is this book, gender?] inequality, the struggle among opposing elements within an individual's own personality, and the conflict between the individual conscience and the collective good...

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    goldtop said on Oct 16, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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