The Golden Notebook
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The Golden Notebook
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Doris Lessing
About this listen
One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, The Golden Notebook was brought to the attention of a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007.
Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative inspiration in a black book, communism in a red book, the breakdown of her marriage in a yellow book, and day-to-day emotions and dreams in a blue book. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
In this authentic, taboo-breaking novel, Lessing brings the plight of women’s lives from obscurity behind closed doors into broad daylight. The Golden Notebook resonates with the concerns and experiences of a great many women and is a true modern classic, thoroughly deserving of its reputation as a feminist bible. A notoriously long and complex work, it is given a new life by this – its first unabridged recording.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- Anna Spencer
- 21-09-2016
A complex but satisfying novel.
The. Golden Notebook is a novel ahead of its time. Complex and innovative, it is a novel or several novels within another. Although written in the '60s, it is, in fact, set in the 1950s. I feel it improbable that women were so promiscuous in this era!
I enjoyed the stories contained in most of the notebooks, but found the political discussions and stories in the red notebook less interesting.
Being such a complex novel, it merits further study.
Juliet Stevenson's narration is brilliant! She engaged my attention throughout.
I am not surprised that Doris Lessing, in 2007, received the Nobel prize for literature. There is a delightful short video of her being told that she has won the award with The Golden Notebook. Her reaction is quite amusing!
This book would appeal to 'the thinking reader.'
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- Milla Dickens
- 21-11-2017
Worth pushing through to the end!!
Juliet Stevenson should win an award for this narration, quite a tour de force with so many characters and voices done consistently. This book is very long and I almost didn't finish, but I felt I was rewarded in the final chapters as I realised it had been working towards it all along and wasn't as aimless as I had formerly judged it. A highly self conscious novel, it explores consciousness, dreams and subjectivity itself. Glad I kept listening on my walks and rather sad to part company with it today after 4 weeks.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-05-2019
Sensitive and intelligent narration
Certainly my favourite author and Juliet Stevenson does this book proud. I could listen to it over and over again. I probably will.
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- James H Davidson
- 05-09-2018
Dated tedious discourse
Distasteful arrogant complaining English brats complaining about their entitled life. Turned off after 10 minutes. Refund please.
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