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The Grass Is Singing

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The Grass Is Singing

by Doris May Lessing

About this title: Mary Turner, a white woman married to a white farmer in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is both afraid of and attracted to Moses, a black farmhand. Issues of prejudice, and what was known as "the colour bar", provide the backdrop for this novel of a woman's gradual disintegration and violent death.

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Binding: Trade Paperback Publisher: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A. Date Published: 1995 ISBN-13: 9780452261198 ISBN: 0452261198

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Edition: n.e. Binding: Softcover Publisher: Grafton Books Date Published: 1/1/1980 ISBN-13: 9780586051030 ISBN: 0586051031

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ISBN-13: 9780452261198 ISBN: 0452261198

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Edition: reprint Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 9780060953461 ISBN: 0060953462

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Plume Books Date Published: 1976 ISBN-13: 9780452261198 ISBN: 0452261198

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Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Plume Books Date Published: 1976 ISBN-13: 9780452257726 ISBN: 0452257727

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Date Published: 1973-01 ISBN-13: 9780435901318 ISBN: 0435901311

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Binding: Other Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books Date Published: 1973 ISBN-13: 9780435901318 ISBN: 0435901311

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Binding: Softcover ISBN-13: 9780061673740 ISBN: 0061673749

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Binding: Trade Sized Paperback Publisher: Plume Date Published: 1976 ISBN-13: 9780452257726 ISBN: 0452257727

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Edition: No Edition Stated Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Popular Library, New York Date Published: 1976

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Date Published: 2008 ISBN-13: 9780061673740 ISBN: 0061673749

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Edition: 1st printing. Binding: PB. Publisher: Ballantine Books U5015., New York. Date Published: 1964 (c1950).

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Oct 2, 2009
By Susan, Omaha, NE

"This is the first Doris Lessing book I have read. I love her writing style. This also actually the first novel she published. This is the story of a woman who starts as an independent single in a big city but ends up marrying a farmer because she overheard her "friends" talking about her and how she probably would never marry, more's the pity. She ends up on a farm hours from any other white neighbors in a shack with a tin roof, married to a man who is a very bad farmer. She slowly goes mad and is murdered. The story sounds depressing, but Lessing's skills makes it a compelling read."

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Jul 1, 2009
By Marigold, Portland, OR

"I have to steal from a previous reviewer here to note that I can't say I liked the book in the usual sense - but it held my attention & is more than deserving of all the praise it's received over the years. This is a deceptively simple, yet harrowing novel that uses the story of Dick & Mary Turner & their servant Moses, to tell the larger story of South Africa under white rule. It's a story about murder, personal disintegration, madness, poverty, the utter screaming boredom of life on a hard-scrabble farm, racism, colonialism, fear and revenge. Brilliant - and depressing - The Grass Is Singing has perhaps the most chilling final chapter I've ever read. Lyrical and frightening and filled with cold, unflinching condemnation of...just about everybody."

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goodreads rating 2 out of 5 2 out of 5
Jun 20, 2009
By Catherine, Austin, TX

"This was a really strange book, for me. I don't even know what to say about it. The two-star rating is a bit misleading, I guess; it's not that the book was just OK, since it was extremely well written. It's more that it was just so...strange. So unrelentingly dark. So unrelatable, and yet somehow uncomfortably familiar -- the characters' racism and insecurities and slowly developing insanity. I think Ms. Lessing is an incredible writer, but reading this, her first novel, made me so uncomfortable, and left a lasting sense of unease."

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goodreads rating 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Jun 12, 2009
By Stella, Budapest, Pest, Hungary

"The Grass Is Singing was my first Doris Lessing novel, and I loved it!
As you could have already read the synospsis, in this book Lessing tells the story of a farmer husband, Dick Turner, and his wife Mary, their life and struggles on their farm in South Africa, while portraying the fragile and unstable state of the balance of forces between the whites and the blacks.

During the first 2 chapters I was a bit surprised and not sure if I would enjoy it (her realistic racist description shocked me), but wow, her evocative and yet simple descriptions of the African landscape, the scorching hot and the reality of the farms and sweaty hard work were very realistic and made me feel as if I was seeing it. And her storytelling! it was so painful and saddening to read the story of these 2(-3) people, who are so different and wanted so different things from life and witness as their differences and inability to understand each other (and their lack of ability to communicate) ruin their lives. Beautiful and very powerful book, it was a wonderful read, I will definitely read more by her. Someone once told me that if I read only one Lessing novel in my life, I should read The Grass Is Singing, and having read it, I can definitely second that opinion, this novel is one you definitely have to read."

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