{"product_id":"the-grass-is-singing-a-novel-isbn-9780061673740","title":"The Grass Is Singing: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.\" \u003cem\u003e— New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"An extremely mature psychological study. \u003cem\u003eThe Grass Is Singing \u003c\/em\u003eis full of touches of truth seldom mentioned but instantly recognized. By any standards, this, book shows remarkable powers and imagination.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Emotional unity and force . . . one of her best works.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her impressive first novel is told with all the intensity and passion Miss Lessing compacts into all her work.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is passion here, a piercing accuracy a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years, a shrewd visionary.”—  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887870439653,"sku":"NP9780061673740","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061673740.jpg?v=1730227633","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-grass-is-singing-a-novel-isbn-9780061673740","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}