Fenixbird's review of The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Fenixbird's review
bookshelves: controversial-innovative, nobel-prize-winners, to-read
bookshelves: controversial-innovative, nobel-prize-winners, to-read
recommended for:
All adults relationship material
status:
Read in August, 2008
Just starting this book...which is apparently the exact opposite of her The Summer After Dark, which I just finished an simply loved! On the cover of this 1968 wonder her earlier work, The Golden Notebook, is promoted. I fear the lead character Kate Brown does not have what it takes to ENJOY a midlife affair, though she is thrust practically into having an affair, whilst in the midst of trying to have an affair (her very first!) well.....one obstacle after obstacle presents itsself!
Quoting NY Times Reporters on author Doris Lessing's recent Nobel literature prize: "Ms. Lessing’s strongest legacy may be that she inspired a generation of feminists with her breakthrough novel, “The Golden Notebook.” In its citation, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship.”
Ms. Lessing wrote candidly about the inner lives of w...more
Quoting NY Times Reporters on author Doris Lessing's recent Nobel literature prize: "Ms. Lessing’s strongest legacy may be that she inspired a generation of feminists with her breakthrough novel, “The Golden Notebook.” In its citation, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship.”
Ms. Lessing wrote candidly about the inner lives of w...more
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