LESSING, Doris.
The Grass Is Singing.
London: Michael Joseph , 1950.
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction": FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK; SIGNED BY DORIS LESSING
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Some of the usual light foxing to the end papers, else an excellent copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Independent on Sunday has called The Grass is Singing '[o]riginal and striking...full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognised.' New Statesman 'Doris Lessing responds more passionately than most writers to people or situations: often she responds with hate or rancour, but always with passion. In The Grass is Singing, you can feel the dynamo-like throb of a formidable talent; by its side, most novels of 1950 look like crochet-work" (The Times). It focuses on the blighted life of a woman whose spirit is destroyed by a disastrous marriage and by an environment to which she couldn't respond. More than any other white African writer of her generation, Doris Lessing is aware of the seductive cruelty of colonialism, and is one of our strongest, fiercest voices against injustice, racism and sexual hypocrisy.'
The Grass Is Singing.
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