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      A Proper Marriage

      by Doris Lessing
      Published
      Nov 1969
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      384
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      Series
      The Children of Violence

      About This Book

      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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      Nov 1969 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780586021163 ISBN10 0586021167
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      Nov 1970 Penguin ISBN13 9780452253100 ISBN10 0452253101
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      Nov 1970 Penguin ISBN13 9780452257894 ISBN10 0452257891
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      Feb 1991 Penguin ISBN13 9780452265776 ISBN10 0452265770
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      Jan 1995 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060976637 ISBN10 0060976632
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      Oct 2001 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780586089996 ISBN10 0586089993
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      Jan 2010 Harper ISBN13 9780062047939 ISBN10 0062047930
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      Oct 2010 HarperCollins ISBN10 B003XDUCK4
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      Jun 2012 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007406920 ISBN10 0007406924
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