The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five — Doris Lessing
Title: The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five — Doris Lessing
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Panther Books / Granada Publishing
Format: Paperback
Edition: Panther Books reprint, 1985. First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1980.
ISBN: 0586053387
Condition: Second-hand. Good vintage reading copy. Light cover creasing, rubbing, edge wear, minor marks to covers, age-toned pages and general shelf wear. Please see photos for the exact copy available.
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five is the second volume in Doris Lessing’s visionary Canopus in Argos: Archives sequence, following Shikasta. Blending literary science fiction, allegory, feminism and mystical speculation, the novel explores a forced political and spiritual marriage between the rulers of neighbouring zones.
Lessing uses the imagined societies of Zones Three, Four and Five to examine gender, power, desire, war, tenderness and transformation. It is a thoughtful and unusual work from one of the twentieth century’s major literary voices.