The Good Terrorist Doris Lessing by Doris Lessing 9780007247219, 0007247214 instant download after payment.

Radical ideology struggles against a bourgeois upbringing as a conscience rebels in Doris Lessing’s compelling revolutionary satire.

“Engrossing…. It bristles with arresting situations and observations of character.”  —  Newsweek

In contemporary London, a loose-knit group of political vagabonds form an ill-defined and volatile underground. Drifting from one cause to the next, they occupy abandoned houses, demonstrate and picket, devise strategies to fit situations that may or may not arise. But, within this world, one small group of men and women - whose deepest conviction seems to rest in a sense of their own largely untested radicalism - is moving inexorably toward active terrorism.

“One of the best novels in English I have read about the terrorist mentality and the inner life of a revolutionary group.”   —  Alison Lurie, The New York Review of Books

“A fine novel, a work of strong and scrupulous realism, absolutely contemporary. . . . What set of circumstances will produce a terrorist act? Lessing provides a convincing explanation.”  —  Marilynne Robinson, The Washington Post Book World

Doris Lessing is widely considered one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Among her most celebrated novels are The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark and Memoirs of a Survivor. Lessing was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Sirian Experiments (1981) and The Good Terrorist (1985). She was also shortlisted, for her entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize 2005 and 2007.