The Golden Notebook - A Novel (Juliet Stevenson) - Doris Lessing torrent

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Literature Novel Britain
Written by Doris Lessing
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Note: This is a different narrator/production than my earlier upload of the Golden Notebook. Listening Length: 27 hours and 37 minutes One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, The Golden Notebook was brought to the attention of a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive “golden notebook” that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative inspiration in a black book, communism in a red book, the breakdown of her marriage in a yellow book, and day-to-day emotions and dreams in a blue book. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life - emotional, political, and professional - amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ’50s. In this authentic, taboo-breaking novel, Lessing brings the plight of women’s lives from obscurity behind closed doors into broad daylight. The Golden Notebook resonates with the concerns and experiences of a great many women and is a true modern classic, thoroughly deserving of its reputation as a feminist bible. A notoriously long and complex work, it is given a new life by this - its first unabridged recording.