Landlocked (Children of Violence)
"Imaginatively conceived...Lessing is a shrewd, dispassionate observer of contemporary history."  ----New Republic"She is not the only best woman novelist we have but one of the most serious and intelligent and honest writers of the whole post-war generation." --Sunday Times(London)"This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century." ---- Milwaukee Journal"A woman has slipped into the uneasy circle of England's Angry Young Men. No charter member of the clubnot even Osborne or Amiscan have mush to teach author Doris Lessing." --Time"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." --Observer"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." --Barbara Kingsolver"Imaginatively conceived...Lessing is a shrewd, dispassionate observer of contemporary history." --New Republic"This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century." --Milwaukee Journal