A Proper Marriage (The Children of Violence, Book 2) by Doris May Lessing Paperback Book

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Author: Doris May Lessing

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Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: Dec 1969

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $16.00

Pages: 448

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An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.

A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

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