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The Golden Notebook

Doris May Lessing

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1962
Pages
Pages 640

A writer fracturing under her own life keeps four separate notebooks, for her African past, her failing communism, her fiction and her diary. A breakdown forces them into one golden notebook where it can be a single story.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
The Golden Notebook, Doris May Lessing

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