Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32953 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
Sarah Durham, a 60-year-old playwright and founder of a leading fringe theatre, writes a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful 19th-century mulatto woman. The play captivates all who come into contact with it, dramatically changing everyone's lives.

Customer Reviews

Difficult
I must admit that I found this book hard going. I was more than half way through it before I began to wonder what might happen to the characters. The main character, Sarah, is a woman of 60 who mixes in theatrical circles, the book is full of literary quotes and references which I didn't recognise, and Sarah seems absorbed in self-analysis for too much of the time.
The book does have some telling insights into how it feels to be infatuated with someone, and how it feels to be depressed. There are also some beautiful descriptions of nature. Little bits of it will stay with me, but it doesn't make me want to read any of her other books.

A very good book about love
I have read most of Doris Lessings books, and they have always meant a lot to me. She writes with an honesty that I have only found in a few other authors. (Axel Sandemose is another).I read "Marta Quest" in my teens, and it helped me understand a lot of things. Now I read "Love, again" book as a middle-aged woman, and I got the same feeling of having learned something about myself, and of not being alone. It is an unusual book about love. It is not only about relationships but about the feeling of love itself.