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Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination....Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.… (más)
Espero sobre todo haber sido capaz de recrear el espíritu de la década de los sesenta, una época que, vista en retrospectivo y comparada con lo que vino después, parece soprendentemente inocente. Una maravillosa y radical obra crítica en la que, a través de las vidas de un grupo de jóvenes incormormistas, Doris Lessing plasma una época, heredera de dos guerras mundiales, florenciente en nuevas actitudes ante la vida.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
With gratitude to my editor at Flamingo, Philip Gwyn Jones, and to my agent, Jonathan Chennells, for help with the Roman Catholic parts of the book.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
An early evening in autumn, and the street below was a scene of small yellow lights that suggested intimacy, and people already bundled up for winter.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
When the geist speaks, the zeit must obey.
Frances sat at the table, cigarette in hand, a cup of strong tea sending out rumours of hillsides where underpaid women picked leaves for that exotic place, the West.
The spirit of the Sixties, with passionate eyes, a trembling voice, and outstretched pleading hands, was confronting the whole past of the human race.
Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination....Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.
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