The grass is singing

Contributor(s):

Lessing, Doris [Autor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Fourth State, 2013Description: 206 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780007498802

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Genre/Form:

Novels

Summary: Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses-master and slave-are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences. ;

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	P-EN LES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B04320

Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses-master and slave-are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences. ;