1985, ISBN: 9780224023238

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Jonathan Cape], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. The Council, to discourage squatters, have sent in workmen to make the place uninhabitable, but that will hardl… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Jonathan Cape], Datum/Stempel Cover-Innenseite vorne. The Council, to discourage squatters, have sent in workmen to make the place uninhabitable, but that will hardly stop Alice. She is a veteran of some fourteen years' experience in squats and communes and here is a house which, judging by the smell coming from upstairs, can use her talents. Jasper is grudgingly proud of the way she knows how to confront officials, to wheedle the connection of water and electricity, to eliminate squalor -though predictably some of their new comrades make snide remarks about Alice's bourgeois domesticity, saying she cares more for curtains than issues. No one, however, refuses the delicious soup she concocts so economically and can expand to unthinkable quantities when a party congress is called. According to an established pattern Jasper lets Afice look after him (though he never allows any physical closeness) and then complains that other people exploit her. The fact that they have been living off Alice's mother for the past four years is ignored, a matter of expediency for which they are far from grateful. When Alice sees no alternative to stealing money from her father, Jasper is enraged to discover that she holds any back for emergencies. Still, Alice cannot imagine life without Jasper and she sees herself as a committed revolutionary. When she isn't so busy nesting, she likes to be on the battlefront: picketing, being bound over and, best of all, spray-painting slogans. She is aware that the latest aim ofthe c.c.U. (Communist Centre Union) is to help the LR.A., but is increasingly concerned about activities in the squat next door -what is buried in their garden and why there is a whiff of slick K.G.B. professionalism amidst their bung­ling English zeal. She is barely conscious of her deeper alarm about the plans hatching under her own roof: the dabbling with explosives, the ill-formed objectives, the disregard ofconsequences. Doris Lessing has superbly portrayed the tensions and ironies of a certain kind of militant left-wing living today, drawing her, DE, [SC: 11.50], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, privates Angebot, 222x145cm, 370, [GW: 515g], [PU: London], Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand, [CT: Englischsprachige Bücher / Romane (englisch)]<

1985, ISBN: 9780224023238

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Black boards the titles in bright gilt to the spine. There are no marks of any kind. The jacket is now in light mylar.. Third Impression 1985. Cloth Hard Cov… Mehr…

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Black boards the titles in bright gilt to the spine. There are no marks of any kind. The jacket is now in light mylar.. Third Impression 1985. Cloth Hard Cover. As New In Like D.J.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Jonathan Cape, 1985, 5<