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Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table—her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and fresh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons live with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at her feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination....
Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look from one of the greatest writers of our time at a group of people who dared to dream—and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward.
About the Author:
Doris Lessing is the author of more than 30 books, including novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. She lives in London.
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Ruby Fregia
reviewed Sweetest Dream on July 15, 2010
Sweetest Dream
Granted, two stars to Doris Lessing is like four stars to anyone else. I just keep on picking up Doris Lessing books and hoping to get something as mind blowing as The Grass is Singing . While The Sweetest Dream was engaging and ambitious, I found the abrupt shift from the ensemble of characters to the focus on a single (supporting) character in the last part of the book hard to justify. I also have kind of a problem with staying focused when reading about hippie whiners, but I thought that the author did a great job contrasting the hero worship of the communist idol against the reality of his utter fecklessness as a human being.
The theme of the book? All too often, life just happens to reasonable people, especially people who don't abandon the moral responsibility to care for others, while the flashier and more selfish people justify leaving a lot of pain in their wake.
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