Doris Lessing
Lessing was a Nobel laureate whose fiction spanned social realism, feminism, and science fiction across a career of seven decades. The Golden Notebook is her masterpiece, a formally innovative examination of female consciousness and political commitment.
Works
- The Golden NotebookExperimental novel interweaving notebooks exploring women's identities and politics
- Martha QuestNovel about a woman's coming of age in colonial Rhodesia amid political turmoil
- A Proper MarriageNovel following a woman's marriage and disillusionment in colonial Africa
- The Grass Is SingingNovel depicting racism and moral decay in colonial Africa through human tragedy
- Briefing for a Descent into HellVisionary novella of man's hallucinogenic journey through civilization and time
- The Good TerroristNovel about activist terrorists motivated by ideology and social conscience
- The Fifth ChildNovel about troubling birth of a mutant child and family dysfunction