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After dropping out of high school for lack of money, Nakasa worked for a year "running messages for white boys," before he got a job making tea in the offices of the local newspaper for Africans, the Natal Sun. Within a month he was writing stories, and after a year...
CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE: MARTHA QUEST AND A PROPER MARRIAGE by Doris Lessing. 605 pages. Simon & Schuster. $7.50.
This is the theme that slowly surfaces in these first two novels of what Doris Lessing plans as a five-novel-cycle. The heroine is a girl of middle-class English parents who was born and grows up in a British colony in Africa. Her name, Martha Quest, is recognized...
Doris Lessing has the rare skill to deal seriously with a female main character who falls into the large but artistically troublesome range between prostitute and nun. Perhaps because the novels are more autobiography than fiction, the author suffers curiously from her heroine's flaw of vision; she is...
Each Other shows that Doris Lessing can write as well as accredited experts on the gymnastics of sexual love. It seems a commonplace enough story. A 19-year-old wife receives a lover in her bed the moment her husband leaves for work. The difference-and what a difference it...