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Title: A Ripple from the Storm (The Children of Violence, Book 3) by Doris May Lessing ISBN: 0-06-097664-0 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: So few reviews for such a great book
Comment: Trying to understand the mid-20th century? Race relations, facism, colonials, communism, sexual politics? Take a ride with Doris Lessing through her strange and fictional small town in southern Africa. This was probably my favorite book of the Children of Violence series, perhaps because in it, Martha actually takes some action. Admittedly, she and her friends are running around like rabbits and will never accomplish anything substantial in the field of race relations, but they're trying, desperately, as they marry the latest currents in European liberal thinking to the absurdities of colonial life.
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Rating: 4
Summary: the story of a ripple
Comment: Lessing presents us here to a third (or forth) phase in the life of Martha Quest, a white woman in "Zambezia", a colonialist state in Africa. "children of violence" which consists the present book is a highly recommended series as a whole, but the whole is to be differentiated as the fifth book belongs to a different genre if to any existing one. the former books, this one included, on the other hand, make an important contribution to female bildungsroman, as Lessing tells us with what i heard to be a tone of apology, in the end of the fifth book. "a ripple in the storm", specifically, suggest some more categories. it faces us with a small comunist group in "Zambezia" through world war 2 which implies all the domain of questions from justice to power in its external and internal spheres, to the state of an individual inside a storm. the story is rich, clever, subtle. it leads us to the continuance of changing and growing of Martha (the author seems to hold a certain popular enough judgement of comunism as something to grow of personally and historically, though not without retaining something of it). it leads us there as if by ourselves. it's not that you want to be or feel yourself to be Martha, actually Martha is half hidden - to herself too - in the turbulence of activity, this is part of the story. it is that you can imagine your shade appearing there in the little rooms. another point,one gets a sad description of the status of women in an example of an ideologically egalitarian organization. this fact is made clear thoroghly by description. one might believe the author doesn't even know this fact (but of course, one shouldn't).
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Title: Martha Quest : A Novel by Doris M. Lessing ISBN: 006095969X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5) by Doris May Lessing ISBN: 0060976675 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Walking in the Shade : Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 by Doris M. Lessing ISBN: 0060929561 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Under My Skin : Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris M. Lessing ISBN: 0060926643 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Grass Is Singing : A Novel by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0060953462 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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