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Landlocked (Plume) [Mass Market Paperback]

Doris Lessing (Author)
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March 1, 1991 Plume
In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.

Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentiethcentury.

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"Imaginatively conceived...Lessing is a shrewd, dispassionate observer of contemporary history." -- -- New Republic

"She is not the only best woman novelist we have but one of the most serious and intelligent and honest writers of the whole post-war generation." -- Sunday Times (London)

"This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century." -- -- Milwaukee Journal

"A woman has slipped into the uneasy circle of England's Angry Young Men. No charter member of the clubnot even Osborne or Amiscan have mush to teach author Doris Lessing." -- Time

"Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary." -- Observer

"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." -- Barbara Kingsolver

"Imaginatively conceived...Lessing is a shrewd, dispassionate observer of contemporary history." -- New Republic

"This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century." -- Milwaukee Journal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time. She lives in north London.

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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Plume (March 1, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0452257751
  • ISBN-13: 978-0452257757
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,841,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Landlocked by Doris Lessing, February 10, 2010
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This entry in the Children of Violence series has Martha fed up with her life in Africa and desiring an escape to England. As she is "Landlocked," she cannot get true independence and is left with friends she is growing distant from and a Communist ideology she is becoming disenchanted with. She spends the majority of the book feeling mentally and spiritually stifled and taking up with various lovers. It is an enjoyable book, just as solid as A Proper Marriage but nothing akin to the masterpiece The Four Gated City. However it sets Martha up well for that final novel, and makes her later transformation believable. It also gives the reader a very stark view of life in WWII South Africa, an area too remote for warfare but always full of the sadness of the time. The Children of Violence novels are a great achievement and should be enjoyed in their entirety, so although this is one of Lessing's less well-known works it would benefit any fan to read it.
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