Name: The Good Terrorist
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Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780007498789

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Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Fourth Estate Ltd

Synopsis "The Good Terrorist"

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-17 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of 'The Golden Notebook' In a London squat. a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice seems capable of organising anything. Motherly. practical and determined. she is also easily exploited by the group and ideal fodder for a more dangerous and potent cause. Eventually their nave radical fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction. but the aftermath is not as exciting as they had hoped. Nonetheless. while they may not have changed the world. their lives will never be the s...

Doris Lessing

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(Irán, 1919 - Londres, 2013). Escritora inglesa nacida en Irán. En 1924 su familia se trasladó a Zimbabwe, allí vivió su infancia y juventud en una granja. Abandonó el Instituto a los catorce años para iniciar una formación autodidacta. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007. Su contacto y amor por África constituyó la narrativa de algunas de sus novelas; el tema de la emancipación de la mujer abunda también en su obra de ficción. También incursionó en el terreno de la fantasía como ángulo de observación de la condición humana. El cuaderno dorado (1962) es su obra más famosa.

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