A Ripple from the Storm
by Doris Lessing 2020-05-07 22:04:58
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Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a "Ripple from the Storm, " Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political ad... Read more
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a "Ripple from the Storm, " Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.

A "Ripple from the Storm" is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century. Less

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  • 8.48x5.58x0.84inches
  • 336
  • Harper Perennial
  • September 1, 1995
  • 9780060976644
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (22 Oct 1919 – 17 Nov 2013) was a British- Rhodesian novelist. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Vi...
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