The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as a s earth mother for a string of "screwed up" post-war children, serves up endless nurturing at the crowded kitchen table of a large North London house, her ex- husband pursues /5(36). The Sweetest Dream. by Doris May Lessing. Paperback. Categories: Fiction Books Literature. Buy Used - Good. $ "The Sweetest Dream i"s a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time. The Sweetest Dream is a novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the s leading up to the s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: پانزدهم ماه جولای سال میلادی.Cited by: 9.
By Doris Lessing Feb. 10, An early evening in autumn, and the street below was a scene of small yellow lights that suggested intimacy, and people already bundled up for winter. THE SWEETEST DREAM. The dream of a perfect society is the ironic center of Lessing's absorbing new novel: her 24th, published in her 82nd year. It's set mostly in the s in Hampstead, a suburb of London, where protagonist Frances Lennox gets by as a columnist for the leftist newspaper The Defender, and de facto earth mother to a crowd of. The Sweetest Dream. By Doris Lessing. HarperCollins $ Frances Lennox is no Martha Quest. Unlike the rebellious protagonist of Doris Lessing's searing "Children of Violence" pentology (), who is swept up in the roaring maelstrom of political upheaval, Frances is a stay-at-home nurturer, an earth mother of the '60s.
The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as a s earth mother for a string of "screwed up" post-war children, serves up endless nurturing at the crowded kitchen table of a large North London house, her ex- husband pursues revolution on all-expenses-paid trips and conferences. From the book jacket:This story of a family, spanning most of the twentieth century, has its fulcrum in the Sixties, that contradictory and embattled decade about which argument becomes louder each day. Complete summary of Doris Lessing's The Sweetest Dream. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Sweetest Dream.
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