Because it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing.
The main character is a woman, probably in her early forties (could be late 30s), who is a Marxist/ex-Marxist from South Africa and a novelist — much like Lessing herself. It’s not an autobiography, though. It’s more a novel about what it was like to be an unmarried woman in the late 1950s/early 1960s in London.
It’s a hard book to summarize. Just thinking about it makes me want to re-read it.
I will mention that Lessing eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Because it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing.
The main character is a woman, probably in her early forties (could be late 30s), who is a Marxist/ex-Marxist from South Africa and a novelist — much like Lessing herself. It’s not an autobiography, though. It’s more a novel about what it was like to be an unmarried woman in the late 1950s/early 1960s in London.
It’s a hard book to summarize. Just thinking about it makes me want to re-read it.
I will mention that Lessing eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature.