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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Doris Lessing, Novelist Who Won 2007 Nobel, Is Dead at 94

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On 11/17/13 5:42 PM, Ikhide wrote:
"Ms. Lessing produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, drawing on a childhood in the central African bush, the teachings of Eastern mystics and years of involvement with grass-roots Communist groups. She embarked on dizzying and, at times, stultifying literary experiments.
But it was her breakthrough novel, "The Golden Notebook," a structurally inventive and loosely autobiographical tale, that remained her best-known work. The 1962 book was daring in its day for its frank exploration of the inner lives of women who, unencumbered by marriage, were free to raise children, or not, and pursue work and their sex lives as they chose. The book dealt openly with topics like menstruation and orgasm, as well as with the mechanics of emotional breakdown."

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