A Proper Marriage
Published on 1. September 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-06-097663-7 (ISBN)
Description
An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.
A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
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Edition
Harperperennial ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-097663-7 (9780060976637)
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Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.