Love, Again (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: London and environs; Belles Rivières, France
- Principal Characters: Sarah Durham, Stephen Ellington-Smith, Elizabeth Ellington-Smith, Mary Ford, Roy Strether, Patrick Steele, Sonia Rogers, Henry Bisley, Molly McGuire, Bill Collins, Richard Service, Sally Soames, Andrew Stead, Susan Craig, Jean-Pierre le Brun, Benjamin Greenfield, Roger Stent, Joyce Millgreen, Dr. Hal Millgreen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Love or romance, Music or musicians, Art or artists, Women, Widows or widowers, Drama or dramatists, Theater
- Locales: London, England, Belles Rivières, France
Doris Lessing’s novel, Love, Again, plays itself out in a theatrical setting. At sixty-something, Sarah Durham, one of the Founding Four of the Green Bird Theatre has reached a successful plateau in her life. Widowed with grown children, she is totally immersed in running the alternative theater she helped to found. She considers herself to have reached “those heights of common sense . . . the evenly lit unproblematical uplands where there are no surprises.” At the opening of the book, she is just about to embark upon the production of an ambitious theatrical piece,...
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