Love Again (45 page)

“Lessing wields a formidable analytic intelligence that makes this work provocative and often astonishingly beautiful.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Lessing strips away the romantic surfaces, ultimately tracing the roots of love and longing all the way down and back to the primary emotional attachments formed (or deformed) with the earliest parent-child bond.”

—
Chicago Tribune

“Reading
Love, Again
, we find ourselves watching in awe, enjoying and admiring, as Lessing bravely and unselfconsciously chops away with her axe until at last she has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth.”

—Francine Prose,
Washington Post Book World

“Compassionately insightful…Lessing handily ties the surprises of inappropriate love to the sharp issues of ageism, emotional instability, the roles of women at the end of the 20th Century, the shaky states of marriage and parent-child relationships, contemporary English culture and the ongoing general quirkiness of the human condition.”

—
Miami Herald

“An exhilarating and disquieting meditation on old age and romantic love. Lessing leads readers of
Love, Again
deep into the irrational zones her characters inhabit and invites us to settle in and make ourselves uneasily at home.”

—
The Nation

“Beautifully written and psychologically penetrating…. Lessing has discovered an aspect of love that few have written about before.”

—
Newark Star-Ledger

Novels

The Grass Is Singing

The Golden Notebook

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

The Summer Before the Dark

The Memoirs of a Survivor

The Diaries of Jane Somers:
The Diary of a Good Neighbor
If the Old Could
…

The Good Terrorist

The Fifth Child

“Canopus in Argos: Archives” series

Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta

The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five

The Sirian Experiments

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

“Children of Violence” series

Martha Quest

A Proper Marriage

A Ripple from the Storm

Landlocked

The Four-Gated City

Short Stories

This Was the Old Chief’s Country

The Habit of Loving

A Man and Two Women

The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories

Stories

African Stories

The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches

Opera

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
(Music by Philip Glass)

Fourteen Poems

Nonfiction

In Pursuit of the English

Particularly Cats

Going Home

A Small Personal Voice

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

The Wind Blows Away Our Words

Particularly Cats…and Rufus

African Laughter

Under My Skin

The Doris Lessing Reader

LOVE, AGAIN
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