Bibliograph

The grass is singing, Doris Lessing

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The grass is singing, Doris Lessing

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The grass is singing

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

841413852

Responsibility statement

Doris Lessing

Summary

Set in South Africa under white rule, [this book is] both a ... chronicle of human disintegration and an ... understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses ... Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion.-Back cover

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