num_pages: 638
description: The landmark novel of the Sixties a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writers block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook the golden notebook that finally pulls these wayward strands of her life together.Widely regarded as Doris Lessings masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, The Golden Notebook is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.
language: English
title: The Golden Notebook
titlecomplete: The Golden Notebook
characters: Anna Wulf, Janet Wulf, Richard Portmain, Max Wulf, Molly Jacobs
genres: Feminism, Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 22476
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger
publisher: Panther Granada