The Grandmothers Author(s): Doris Lessing Publisher: Date: 2005-01-01 Format: pdf,rtf,epub,lit,lrf,mobi,fb2,pdb Language: English ISBN10: Pages: 336 I wonder why such skilled but aging writers are exploring older women being lovers of younger men when they can't write convincingly about it. At least the novella following 'The Grandmothers', 'Victoria and the Staveneys,' an exploration of love and race, manages to find the emotion in an unusual situation. And then, finally, the reader, if she hasn't given up already, reaches the last novella, 'Love Child.' Here, Lessing takes her time to develop the circumstances of a lower middle class man who is drafted while still in college to serve during World War II. Slow to unfold but honest at every turn, this novella is a delight in detail and character, with its protagonist James earning the right to the reader's affection. With a few minor exceptions, what happens is both convincing and natural. By the end of it, I felt Lessing had redeemed herself both as a writer and an observer of the human condition. 'Love Child' alone makes this collection worth reading. Thank goodness Lessing chose to include it, for otherwise I would have been greatly disappointed. In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. The grandmothers; Victoria and the Staveneys. By Doris Lessing. The grandmothers; Victoria and the Staveneys; The reason for it. By Doris Lessing. London: Harper Perennial. The grandmothers, 26. The grandmothers by Doris Lessing The grandmothers. By Doris Lessing. In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed ra. Read Martha Quest A Novel by Doris Lessing with Rakuten Kobo. Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her w. Read The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing with Rakuten Kobo. As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the Lon.
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