{"product_id":"a-ripple-from-the-storm-isbn-9780060976644","title":"A Ripple From the Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.\"  — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a \u003cem\u003eRipple from the Storm,\u003c\/em\u003e Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eRipple from the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887340843237,"sku":"NP9780060976644","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060976644.jpg?v=1730225931","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-ripple-from-the-storm-isbn-9780060976644","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}