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Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination....
Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.
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The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as a 1960s earth mother for a string of "screwed up" post-war children, serves up endless nurturing at the crowded kitchen table of a large North London house, her ex- husband pursues revolution on all-expenses-paid trips and conferences. Occasionally he drops by for free meals or to dump one of the children, or wives, of another failed marriage on Frances's doorstep. Lessing is able to turn a dispassionate eye on the economics of free love, in which women usually pay.
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From swinging-'60s London to liberated sub-Saharan Africa, the author depicts the human faces of a broad canvas of issues in this polemical piece. The novel ranges from anorexia to AIDS to casting a questioning eye at the morality of the travelers on the World Bank gravy train. Moving from London to the tragic landscape of post-independence "Zimlia" (a thinly veiled Zimbabwe), Lessing documents the social movement and lost dreams of a post-war generation, for whom "it is always The Dream that counts." --Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk
Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0007130198
- ISBN 13 9780007130191
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Paperback. The story of a family spanning the 20th century.Its fulcrum is in the 60s, a decade about which argument becomes louder everyday.Julia and Frances,grandmother and mother fight for the "kids" against obstacles,the worst being Comrade Johnny.The revolution comes before personal matters as he deposits discarded wives and hurt children in thisdaccomodating house.This novel reflects our recent history like a many faceted mirror and is full of prople you are not like;ly to forget,every one of them,for worse or for better,directly or indirectly made by war. One of the outstanding writers of our age. "In everything she says or does she remains twice the size of other writers."Independent. 2001. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 17054995
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 479 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post. It's the morning of the Sixties and it's suppertime at Freedom Hall, the most welcoming household in North London. Frances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing a feast to readiness before ladling it out to the motley, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Contemporary fiction; England; 1960s; ISBN: 0007130198. ISBN/EAN: 9780007130191. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10471. Seller Inventory # 10471
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