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Item Details
Title:
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THE FOUR-GATED CITY
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By: |
Doris Lessing |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£15.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0586090037 |
ISBN 13: |
9780586090039 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
12 July, 1990 |
Pages: |
672 |
Description: |
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's `Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. |
Synopsis: |
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's `Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.`The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three.In the four previous novels of the `Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Flamingo |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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