The Cleft Condition:Very Good Rebel" and "It's My Life

Rebel" and "It's My Life

she gives the reader a toolbox for managing the way we react to the onslaught of feelings that can wreak havoc in our lives

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The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original

The Cleft Condition:Very Good Rebel" and "It's My LifeDoris Lessing invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of