The Golden Notebook: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0061582484
- ISBN-13
- 9780061582486
- Series
- The Golden Notebook
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 688
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-14
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Doris Lessing
Description
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. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.
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