The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition

"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." -- New York Times Book Review

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/03/1999
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780060931407


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 10/26/2007 pg. 73
People Weekly 10/29/2007 pg. 52

About the Author
Lessing, Doris: -

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.