TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lessing,Doris May
TI  - Martha Quest
T2  - Book one of the Children of violence series
SN  - 006095969X
U1  - 823.914 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Perennial
KW  - British
KW  - Africa, Southern
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Young women
KW  - Zimbabwe
N1  - "Martha Quest was first published in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph in 1952. The first U.S. edition (in one volume together with A Proper Marriage) was published by Simon & Schuster in 1964" - T.p. verso; First Perennial classics edition published 2001
N2  - "The classic coming-of-age novel for women. Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealist in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience.  For her, this is time of solitary reading, daydreams, dancing-and the first disturbing encounters with sex.  The first of Doring Lessing's timeless children of violence novels, Martha Quest is an enduring masterpiece." - Back cover
ER  -