The Golden Notebook: A Novel (p.S.) [Paperback]

The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women.   — New York Times Book Review

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel,The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

“A work of high seriousness....Absorbing and exciting.” -Irving Howe, New Republic

“The Golden Notebookis Doris Lessing’s most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women.” -Elizabeth Hal&