The Cleft: A Novel Paperback - 2008
by Lessing, Doris
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In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing envisions a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, jealousy, and petty rivalries--essentially, a society free from men. Lessing confronts the troublesome particulars of how gender affects every aspect of peoples existence.
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Details
- Title The Cleft: A Novel
- Author Lessing, Doris
- Binding Paperback
- Edition a
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, NY USA
- Date 2008-01-29
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0060834870-3-27322940
- ISBN 9780060834876 / 0060834870
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings.
In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born--until the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a boy.
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Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 02/17/2008, Page 24