The Grass Is SingingDoris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing' with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth century literature. Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty,

From the critically acclaimed author of One Small Voice a bold

you can't deny that it was one helluva ride

reflective letters to guide her son as he navigates through life with a common-sense appeal to the next generation: Drop the worst and take the best of what you're given

or destroy everything they've worked for

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and leverage them for their future success

where it lies to this day

that unfolds like a fevered dream as one startling image follows another with the logic and inexorability of dreams

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and strange as well as familiar

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