The Grass Is Singing

Description

“There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.” — New York Times

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing’s first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman’s struggle against a ruthless fate.

Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary’s despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses–master and slave–are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Doris Lessing
Published: 09/16/2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061673740
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Lessing, Doris: –

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.