Love Again (45 page)
Authors: Doris Lessing
“Lessing wields a formidable analytic intelligence that makes this work provocative and often astonishingly beautiful.”
—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
“Lessing strips away the romantic surfaces, ultimately tracing the roots of love and longing all the way down and back to the primary emotional attachments formed (or deformed) with the earliest parent-child bond.”
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Chicago Tribune
“Reading
Love, Again
, we find ourselves watching in awe, enjoying and admiring, as Lessing bravely and unselfconsciously chops away with her axe until at last she has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth.”
—Francine Prose,
Washington Post Book World
“Compassionately insightful…Lessing handily ties the surprises of inappropriate love to the sharp issues of ageism, emotional instability, the roles of women at the end of the 20th Century, the shaky states of marriage and parent-child relationships, contemporary English culture and the ongoing general quirkiness of the human condition.”
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Miami Herald
“An exhilarating and disquieting meditation on old age and romantic love. Lessing leads readers of
Love, Again
deep into the irrational zones her characters inhabit and invites us to settle in and make ourselves uneasily at home.”
—
The Nation
“Beautifully written and psychologically penetrating…. Lessing has discovered an aspect of love that few have written about before.”
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Newark Star-Ledger
Novels
The Grass Is Singing
The Golden Notebook
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
The Summer Before the Dark
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Diaries of Jane Somers:
The Diary of a Good Neighbor
If the Old Could
…
The Good Terrorist
The Fifth Child
“Canopus in Argos: Archives” series
Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
The Sirian Experiments
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
“Children of Violence” series
Martha Quest
A Proper Marriage
A Ripple from the Storm
Landlocked
The Four-Gated City
Short Stories
This Was the Old Chief’s Country
The Habit of Loving
A Man and Two Women
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories
Stories
African Stories
The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
Opera
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
(Music by Philip Glass)
Fourteen Poems
Nonfiction
In Pursuit of the English
Particularly Cats
Going Home
A Small Personal Voice
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Wind Blows Away Our Words
Particularly Cats…and Rufus
African Laughter
Under My Skin
The Doris Lessing Reader
LOVE, AGAIN
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EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061849718
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