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By: Doris Lessing

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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages311
  • Published2003
  • File size1.0 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780007152810

Key ideas from the book

  • The collection brings together four novellas by Doris Lessing.
  • Its stories explore intimate relationships and family connections.
  • Desire is examined alongside social expectations and moral uncertainty.
  • The book considers how age and identity shape private lives.
  • Readers gain a compact example of Lessing’s later literary fiction.

About The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing

Published in 2003, The Grandmothers is a collection of four novellas by Doris Lessing. The stories examine intimate relationships, family ties, desire, and the pressures exerted by social convention, presenting emotionally complicated situations without simple moral judgments.

The collection suits readers of literary fiction who value psychological nuance, concise long-form storytelling, and Lessing’s interest in the ways private lives intersect with age, identity, and society. It also offers a focused introduction to her later fiction.

About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist, essayist, and memoirist whose work explored politics, colonialism, feminism, psychology, and human consciousness. Born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), she moved to London in 1949 and became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Her best-known books include The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook, the Children of Violence series, and the science-fiction Canopus in Argos sequence.…

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