{"product_id":"the-four-gated-city-harperperennial-9780060976675","title":"The Four Gated City (Harperperennial)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I read the \u003cem\u003eChildren of Violence\u003c\/em\u003e novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.\" -- Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doris Lessing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.08w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060976675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLessing, Doris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, \u003cstrong\u003eDoris Lessing\u003c\/strong\u003e was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels \u003cem\u003eMartha Quest, The Golden Notebook, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fifth Child\u003c\/em\u003e. She died in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43110635831411,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_68aa8a9a-e6fb-4734-961e-775cb4ad0a6b.jpg?v=1748982939","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-four-gated-city-harperperennial-9780060976675","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}