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THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK by DORIS LESSING 273 pages. Knopf. $6.95.
This is a book about what Doris Lessing, as always with a straight face, describes as "a pretty, healthy, serviceable woman." Her name is Kate Brown. She is upper-middle-class English. Unlike most Lessing women, who are versions of Lessing herself, she is no intellectual. She is bright, though...
What would normally be in store for Kate? Literarily, she might in this day and age wind up embalmed as the heroine of a Jean Kerr comedy, or a case history for Women's Lib (Anatomy is not Destiny, etc.). In life, Doris Lessing notes, Kate's future...
Art v. Life. British, German and Japanese export models are being offered at no extra cost despite the devaluation of the dollar. They include a posthumous Yukio Mishima novel (Runaway Horses), the second volume of a tetralogy that began with Spring Snow; Nobel Prizewinner Heinrich Böll's...
THE TEMPTATION OF JACK ORKNEY AND OTHER STORIES by Doris Lessing. The author of The Golden Notebook moves with keen intelligence over some of the major issues of our time.