{"product_id":"landlocked-9780060976651","title":"Landlocked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary.\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of World War II, Martha Quest finds herself completely disillusioned. She is losing faith with the communist movement in Africa, and her marriage to one of the movement's leaders is disintegrating. Determined to resist the erosion of her personality, she engages in the first satisfactory love affair and breaks free, if only momentarily, from her suffocating unhappiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandlocked is the fourth novel of Doris Lessing's classic\u003cem\u003e Children of Violence\u003c\/em\u003e sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and collectively an incisive, all encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLessing, Doris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing 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\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe 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":"Default Title","offer_id":50523382546706,"sku":"9780060976651","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8440e2d6-0051-4d62-8d0f-274b342f873b.jpg?v=1731146336","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/landlocked-9780060976651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}