The Sweetest Dream (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1960’s through the end of the twentieth century
- Setting: London and southern Africa
- Principal Characters: Johnny Lennox, Frances, Andrew, Colin, Julia, Phyllida, Sylvia Lennox, Franklin Tichafa, Rose Trimble, Sophia, Comrade Mo, Clever
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Mothers, Communism or communists, Politics, Twentieth century, Leadership, 1980’s, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Women, Economics, London, Idealism, 1990’s, Houses, mansions, or manors, Great Britain
- Locales: Africa, London, England
Doris Lessing has always been interested in the relationship between the individual and the collective. In this, her twenty- fifth novel, she writes of many individuals and the groups they form, then puts them all into a variety of larger societal and political contexts. As always, Lessing hits hard on global economic politics, particularly on issues of race, poverty, and the lack of adequate leadership from the political hierarchy.
Much of the novel is set in the 1960’s in a big, three- story house with a basement apartment located in Hampstead, London, owned by German-born...
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