Author: Doris Lessing

Publisher: Bantam 2494

Year: 1976 Print: 1 Cover Price: $1.95

Condition:  Book Grades: NBear fine. Like new

Genre: Fiction/Novel

Pages: 2517

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In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.