Adore: a novella
Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs ... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human cond…
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- Full title :Adore : a novella / Doris Lessing.
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Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs ... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
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"Originally published as "The Grandmothers" in the collection The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels in hardcover in the United States in 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:70, 29 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0062318969, 9780062318961
- oclc:ocn853649242
- LC Classification:PR6023.E833
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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