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8 The Summer Before the Dark, Lessing
But Novelist Lessing, 53, does not have time for all that now. In the past 20 years she has written and lived her way through and forsaken such pangs and consolations as marriage, Freud, and the accomplishments of applied Marxism seem to offer. She is increasingly haunted by a vision...
Fever. Kate Brown and the reader, accordingly, must face the shock of age, the loss of beauty, with dramatic speed. And if that means that the plot must groan like a Paris elevator, or the prose sometimes has to scuff along in rundown slippers and an old dressing gown, Doris...
Caring. For a pretty woman, matrimony puts the highest sort of premium on that view, and the book, naturally, has some harsh words about what even a good marriage does to women. Are there any alternatives? Kate wonders. Probably not, Doris Lessing decides, at least for those women who seem...
Fiction is destroyed by précis - Doris Lessing's more than most writers'. Her power lies in the kind of nonpartisan gravity that overrides any specific levity a cynical reader may generate. She encourages the kind of brooding about the questions of life which knows at the...