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The Sweetest Dream Book
The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream. While Frances Lennox, uncomplaining and unsentimental about her roles as 60s earth mother for a string of "screwed up" post-war children, serves up endless nurturing at the crowded kitchen table of a large North London house, her erstwhile ex-husband pursues revolution on all-expenses-paid trips and conferences. Occasionally he drops by for free meals or to dump one of the children--or wives--of another failed marriage on Frances' doorstep. Lessing is able to turn a dispassionate eye on the economics of free love, in which women usually pay. From swinging 60s London to liberated sub-Saharan Africa, the author depicts the human faces of a broad … read more...
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