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The grass is singing

Lessing, Doris, 1919-20132013
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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 works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.
Main title:
The grass is singing / Doris Lessing.
Edition:
Fourth Estate edition.
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.©1950
Collation:
206 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 1950.
ISBN:
97800609534610060953462 (pbk)97800074988029780007498802 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
115494
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
City LibraryFictionLESSOn reserve shelf at Kathleen Syme Carlton
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