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      Landlocked

      by Doris Lessing
      Published
      Oct 1995
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      352
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      Series
      The Children of Violence Book 4

      About This Book

      "Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary." — The Observer

      In the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.

      Landlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

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      Book 4
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      First Edition Jan 1995 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060976651 ISBN10 0060976659
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      Sep 1970 Penguin ISBN13 9780452257757 ISBN10 0452257751
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      Sep 1970 Penguin ISBN13 9780452251380 ISBN10 0452251389
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      Jan 2009 Harper ISBN13 9780061991820 ISBN10 0061991821
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      Apr 2013 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007455560 ISBN10 0007455569
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