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Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
- Sales Rank: #177737 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-05-07
- Released on: 2013-05-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
'In The Grass is Singing, you can feel the dynamo-like throb of a formidable talent: by its side most novels of 1950 loooked like crochet-work.' The Times 'The Grass is Singing focuses on the blighted life of a woman whose spirit is destroyed by a disastrous marriage and by an environment to which she couldn't respond. More than any other white African writer of her generation, Doris Lessing is aware of the seductive cruelty of colonialism and is one of our strongest, fiercest voices against injustice, racism and sexual hypocrisy.' Independent on Sunday
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Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
About the Author
Doris Lessing is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the second half of the twentieth century.
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84 of 87 people found the following review helpful.
Original and striking
By HORAK
Doris Lessing's "The Grass is Singing" opens with the death of Mary Turner. How could Mary's life have ended with such a tragic fate? As the reader progresses through the novel, he discovers Mary's insufferable existence, her life destroyed by a disastrous marriage to a farmer, Dick Turner. Mary is forced to live in a rural environment in South Africa for which she is ill-suited. Furthermore, Mary's relationship with her husband rapidly deteriorates as she realises that Dick is unable to manage the farm successfully and they are constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. A truly superb novel, tragic and moving to the very last line. Mrs Lessing's wonderfully captures Africa's majestic beauty, the difficult relationship between the whites and the Natives. The psychological portrait of her heroine is exceptionally intense.
63 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
It's not dull. It's nuanced.
By Ashley O. H.
So I hear Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in literature, and of course, lemming that I am, I have to read something by her. Did her award affect my reading of this book? Probably. Nonetheless, I found myself literally holding my breath in parts. This certainly wasn't because of the plot--there's not a lot of plot, here, but there really doesn't need to be. The Grass is Singing is a novel about relationships, psychology, and the way the environment permeates them. Our heroine is so human that I hated her and loved her at the same time. The nuances between her and her husband comprised the best literary depiction of marriage that I can remember reading. Ever. I hate to gripe on other people's reviews, but one describe the novel as dull, and although I suspect this attributable the lack of plot, it is not dull. It's nuanced, complex, and eerie. Not dull.
47 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
The Grass is Singing
By Heather Gauthier
Because of several particular details early on, it was during her "happy years" that I began wondering if the subject of sexual abuse would enter the picture. The first detail was her aversion to intimacies, whether in friendship or love. Her happiness was brought about by everything being in order and in its place. No messes at work, no messes in relationships. Lessing describes her ability to remain detached from deep human contact as "aloofness", but when it came down to physical contact, it was utter "repulsion". Lessing also makes several vague statements about her relationship with her father, such as the fact that after her mother died, he finally left her alone. Also, there is a statement on page 39 that I thought might have been referring to her parents, but it seems intentionally vague.
"She felt sentimental at weddings, but she had a profound distaste for sex; there had been little privacy in her home and there were things she did not care to remember; she had taken good care to forget them years ago."
Mary is also unable to take on the physical appearance of a woman, although she doesn't realize it. In some ways, she is completely detached from her womanhood, almost refusing to acknowledge it (such as her 30th birthday). She feels herself successful because she feels she now fits comfortably and happily into popular society. When she hears her friends speaking badly of her, her "success" is absolutely smashed to pieces right in front of her and she discovers that she is profoundly different than the people around her. Even though she was happy, other saw something terribly wrong with her.
Once she marries, her irrational feelings begin to bloom (as if they've been triggered). Many of her reactions don't fit the crimes. Any positive feelings she has towards Dick (pitying him when she sees his childish qualities) are always crushed by her loathing of him as a man. Its so strong that he sees it right off the bat. She has put herself in a position that is so similar to her childhood; desolation, lack of control, unwanted physical contact. And so she takes out her confused misery and blind fury on the easiest targets; the locals. They represent two things that frighten her the most:
1- All things earthy and physical. Breast feeding, nakedness, procreation.
2- Helplessness and poverty.
She loathes in them what she loathes about her own life.
She is a boiling pot of emotions that are all jumbled together and meaningless in her mind. Even when life is not as complicated as will eventually be, she has no idea of herself. Her self-reflection is an inch deep and she blames her impulses from one second to the next on false causes. Her mind is ripe for destruction when she meets a native who has the power to seduce her affections in a way that her husband never could. In the beginning, her own emotional and (I would guess) physical reactions, are both too wonderful and horrid for her to bear. It is never clear whether she loathes this man with every fiber of her being or if she cannot live without him. Her feelings towards him bring out nightmares involving humiliation by her father and memories of male smells she has tried to forget. She confuses Moses (as well as her emotions towards him) with her father.
When her love and hate finally place her at the brink of destruction, she succumbs to one and has a numb peace for a short time.
Even when Tony comes to her "aid" and she verbally rejects Moses, she cries to Tony that "He is finally gone," as well as, "You made him leave!".
My theory is that as a human being, she was annihilated on a very core level before she even left her childhood home. It seems to me that every emotion she had and every decision she made was based on her scars of sexual abuse and when she is finally faced with a real attachment, its a double whammy because of the fact that her obsession is a native; someone she was bred to not regard as human.
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