Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. 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 work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.</P>
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.</P>
Not a book for the fainted hearted, presumably you can related to the psychological movement of Mary. Lessing said in interview (Apostrophe - Pivot) that books used to be her escape/sanctuary from the real world. Growing up in (somewhat) isolated communiti...
評分Feminist is not just a None. It representives a culture.
評分 評分BOOK REPORT Title: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Genre: Fiction Copyright: 1950 11 Chapters Main Characters: The Turners ( Dick& Mary) The Charlies (Charlies Slatter and his wife) House boys ( first Samson; last Moses ) The English young ma...
評分不無聊不諾貝爾,嗬
评分對作死人格無與倫比的描寫;彆結婚,無辜的迪剋先生
评分對作死人格無與倫比的描寫;彆結婚,無辜的迪剋先生
评分可恨之人必有可憐之處?主題之類的都很好,就是mary對待native的態度的描述這一段跳的太快,一下子變得凶神惡煞讓人摸不著頭腦。
评分disturbingly Lessing
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