Love Again - by Doris Lessing (Paperback)

About the Book

Widowed for many years, and with grown children, a 65-year-old woman falls in love again and struggles to maintain her sanity. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her earliest childhood desires to her most recent obsessions.

Book Synopsis

"She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth." -- Francine Prose, Washington Post Book World

Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her life as she knows it. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her earliest childhood desires to her most recent obsessions. The result is a brilliant anatomy of love from a master of human psychology who remains one of the most daring writers of fiction at work today.

From the Back Cover

Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her earliest childhood desires to her most recent obsessions. The result is a brilliant anatomy of love from a master of human psychology who remains one of the most daring writers of fiction at work today.

Review Quotes

"Compelling, large and often marvelously funny...a deeply satisfying book." - Boston Globe
"Brilliantly illuminates the many and various facets of a phenomenon as familiar-and deeply strange-as falling in love." - Wall Street Journal
"She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth." - Washington Post Book World
"An exhilarating and disquieting meditation on old age and romantic love." - The Nation
"Brilliantly illuminates the many and various facets of a phenomenon as familiar--and deeply strange--as falling in love." - Wall Street Journal
"Compelling, large and often marvelously funny...a deeply satisfying book." - Boston Globe
"Lessing is a contemporary George Eliot, an intellectual whose imgaination is firmly grounded in the sensual life and the natural world." - Kirkus Review (starred review)