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The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels is collection of four novellas published in 2003 by 2007 Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. The 2013 Australian-French film Adore (alternatively known as Adoration) is based on the story The Grandmothers.
1 de ene. de 2003 · 2,398 ratings273 reviews. In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter ...
29 de mar. de 2012 · Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story,...
4 de ene. de 2005 · The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels. Paperback – January 4, 2005. by Doris Lessing (Author) 134. See all formats and editions. “Here is yet more evidence that this writer of enormous insight and prodigious talent should have won the Nobel Prize decades ago.”. — Chicago Tribune.
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story, 'The...
The title story, 'The Grandmothers', is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness...
Category: Short Stories. This Edition: British first edition. ISBN: 0007152795. From the book jacket: The Grandmothers. Two women, close friends, fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, promising a respectable old age.
