![]() ![]() Finally, in love with an American writer, threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which her heroine relives part of her own experience. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with Communism. In one with a black cover she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. She is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. Here in this labyrinth of overwhelmingly real stories is the full, complex story of a modern woman, Anna - a woman who will be talked about as were Ibsen's and Shaw's "new women" when the first appeared.Īnna tries to live with the freedom of a man. It is surely on of the most important English novels of our time. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing D o r i s L e s s i n gįrom the book jacket: The Golden Notebook is the kind of novel every publisher waits for impatiently - a major work by a major talent. ![]()
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