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Good Terrorist : A Thriller by Doris Lessing (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307389960
ISBN-139780307389961
eBay Product ID (ePID)64033229
Product Key Features
Book TitleGood Terrorist : a Thriller
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Thrillers / Political, Political, Thrillers / Terrorism
Publication Year2008
GenreFiction
AuthorDoris Lessing
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Powerful, effective, and page-turningly suspenseful." - The Christian Science Monitor "One of the best novels in English I have read about the terrorist mentality and the inner life of a revolutionary group." -Alison Lurie, The New York Review of Books "A fine novel, a work of strong and scrupulous realism, absolutely contemporary. . . . What set of circumstances will produce a terrorist act? Lessing provides a convincing explanation." -Marilynne Robinson, The Washington Post Book World "Engrossing.... It bristles with arresting situations and observations of character." - Newsweek, "Powerful, effective, and page-turningly suspenseful." -- The Christian Science Monitor "One of the best novels in English I have read about the terrorist mentality and the inner life of a revolutionary group." --Alison Lurie, The New York Review of Books "A fine novel, a work of strong and scrupulous realism, absolutely contemporary. . . . What set of circumstances will produce a terrorist act? Lessing provides a convincing explanation." --Marilynne Robinson, The Washington Post Book World "Engrossing.... It bristles with arresting situations and observations of character." -- Newsweek, "Powerful, effective, and page-turningly suspenseful." -The Christian Science Monitor "One of the best novels in English I have read about the terrorist mentality and the inner life of a revolutionary group." -Alison Lurie,The New York Review of Books "A fine novel, a work of strong and scrupulous realism, absolutely contemporary. . . . What set of circumstances will produce a terrorist act? Lessing provides a convincing explanation." -Marilynne Robinson,The Washington Post Book World "Engrossing.... It bristles with arresting situations and observations of character." -Newsweek
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisThe Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of the intersections between the personal and the political, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing creates in The Good Terrorist a compelling portrait of domesticity and rebellion., "The Good Terrorist" follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of the intersections between the personal and the political, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing creates in "The Good Terrorist" a compelling portrait of domesticity and rebellion., A powerful contemporary novel about a group of would-be terrorists in London that Susan Brownmiller in Newsday called "a bone-tingling narrative that should stand as the crowning achievement of Lessing's distinguished career".
LC Classification NumberPR6023.E833
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