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A Ripple from the Storm - (Children of Violence) by Doris Lessing (Paperback)
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Highlights
- "Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.
- Author(s): Doris Lessing
- 336 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: Children of Violence
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Book Synopsis
"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence." -- New York Times Book Review
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.
Review Quotes
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." -- Barbara Kingsolver
"Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character." -- Sunday Times (London)
"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence." -- New York Times Book Review