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Title: The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0-394-50914-5 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 March, 1980 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.45 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Science fiction for those who really don't like SciFi
Comment: I first read this book many years ago, and had a happy memory of it. I was very pleased that a fresh reading lived up to that memory.
On its surface, it examines the roles of men and women, represented by two estranged, neighboring Zones. The first is pastoral, prosperous, and ineffective. The second is harsh, militaristic, and also ineffective. The two are not really reunited, but they break their polarization and isolation. Peaceful exchange between them is restored, and both are healthier for it.
Saying anything more would be saying too much. I was interested, though, that the nations seemed to imitate the mating of their ambassadors. One nation was archetypically male, the other female. The ambassadors, like germ cells, are living things that pass from one nation to the other, and are united. I never though about it before, but fertilization is destructive both sperm and ovum, even if somthing new comes from the fusion. The protagonists, the envoys of the two Zones, similarly suffer for the greater future. Other metaphors emerge from the story, too, and some may have strong personal meaning for you.
I really can't do justice to the elegance and peaceful pace of Lessing's writing. That, you'll have experience for yourself. Although this book is second in a series of five, they can be read in any order. Each book's story is unrelated to the others, but the set as a whole is far more than the concatenation of its parts. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, and eventually enjoy coming back to it again.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant transformational map!
Comment: I read this brilliant and much beloved book of Doris Lessing every year. And I learn something more from it each time I read it. There is one page near the end of the book which is rippled with my tears of past readings. Each time I read it, I think that I won't cry this time. And yet when I arrive at the bumply page, my tears unleash yet again.
This is a profoundly moving story, yes, a brilliant and touching love story. Yet, it is much more than that. It is a map of transformation, one of the deepest, truest ones which I have found.
I am the author of six metaphysical books myself, and this beloved book of Doris Lessings, along with the rest of her inspirational "Canopus in Argus" series, has played a profound part in my own personal growth and transformation. For this, I am extremely grateful. Thank you Doris Lessing for writing so exquisitely about what is usually only known deep within our core beings!
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Title: The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0006547214 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Shikasta : Re, Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0394749774 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0006547184 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: SENTIMENTAL AGENTS by Doris Lessing ISBN: 0394723864 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Time Will Darken It by WILLIAM MAXWELL ISBN: 0679772588 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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