Adore : a novella
Title:
Adore : a novella
Author:
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013.
ISBN:
9780062318961
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, c2013
Physical Description:
70, 29 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
General Note:
"Originally published as "The Grandmothers" in the collection The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels in hardcover in the United States in 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso.
Abstract:
Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs ... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.
Subject Term:
Subject:
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
Summary:
Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs ... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition.