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An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
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A Proper Marriage, Doris Lessing
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- Released
- 1966
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- Title
- A Proper Marriage
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Doris Lessing
- Publisher
- Granada
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0586021167
- ISBN13
- 9780586021163
- Series
- Children of Violence
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Classics, Politics, Military Fiction, Wars, 20th century, Fun, British Literature, Africa, Marriage, Communism, Nobel prize
- Original title
- A proper marriage
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.