Love, Again (Paperback, New Ed)

Love, Again is the story of an older woman and the passions she experiences for two younger men. Sarah is the manager of a successful fringe theatre where she meets an attractive young actor, Bill Collins, when he joins the cast of the latest production. He has a profound effect on all the women he comes into contact with but Sarah's longing triggers a re-awakening, a stout reflection on past loves and on how her present feelings of passion and lust remain as urgent as when she was a young woman, producing feelings of anger (at herself) and grief, because the situation is complicated and the love remains unfulfilled. Eventually she falls in love with a theatre director, Henry, who although still younger than Sarah, reciprocates her love. But nothing is simple - Henry is married. Lessing deals emotively and honestly with one of the last social taboos and in so doing explores the larger issues of the very meaning of love and desire just as she did in The Grass is Singing. (Kirkus UK)

A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007. Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It captivates all who come into contact with it, and dramatically changes the lives of all those who take part in it. For Sarah the changes are profound - she falls in love with two younger men, causing her to relive her own stages of growing up, from immature and infantile with the beautiful and androgynous Bill, to a mature love with Henry.

General

Imprint:	Flamingo
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 1997
Authors:	Doris Lessing
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	352
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-586-09228-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-586-09228-5
Barcode:	9780586092286

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