The Good Terrorist
Synopsis
The scene is contemporary London, where a loose-knit group of political vagabonds comprises an ill-defined and volatile underground. Drifting from one cause to the next, they occupy abandoned houses, demonstrate and picket, devise strategies to fit situations that may or may not arise. But, within this world, one particular commune - one small group of men and women whose deepest conviction seems to rest in a sense of their own largely untested radicalism - is moving inexorably toward active terrorism.
Author Biography
English short story writer and novelist Doris Lessing was born in October 1919 in Persia (now Iran). She took a number of non-literary jobs after leaving school when she was fifteen. When her second marriage ended in 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971); The Sirian Experiments (1981); and The Good Terrorist (1985) which was also awarded the WH Smith Literary Award. She has also been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2005 and 2007). Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
