{"product_id":"the-sweetest-dream-9780060937553","title":"The Sweetest Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly.... a stirring novel\"--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table--her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. It's London in the 1960s and everything is being challenged and changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what is being tolerated? Comrade Johnny delivers political tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Johnny's mother funds all but finds she can embrace only one lost little girl--Sylvia, who leaves for a South African village dying of AIDS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the people dreaming the Sixties into being and who, on the morning after, woke to find they were the ones taxed with cleaning up and making good.\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":50491368145170,"sku":"9780060937553","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b06edcf4-d9a5-4bea-b5bc-0e5bf6a79f32.jpg?v=1730539716","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sweetest-dream-9780060937553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}