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A review by lizshine74
Love, Again by Doris Lessing
3.0
The Golden Notebook is in my top ten most influential and loved books ever. Still, other than short stories I haven't gotten around to Lessing's other novels. I bought this book in hardback at a dollar book sale. I liked the cover and the title and the idea of an aged woman falling in love again appealed to me.
The plot dragged and was predictable at times, but I don't believe Lessing wrote a plot driven story. The predictability may even fit the universal anguish of impossible love, of loneliness. Yes, we know what's going to happen as it always happens that way and we are powerless to stop it. So it goes. It's an interior story and the interior parts were moving and true. She also has excellent parallels and allusions running throughout and the setting is detailed and evocative.
The plot dragged and was predictable at times, but I don't believe Lessing wrote a plot driven story. The predictability may even fit the universal anguish of impossible love, of loneliness. Yes, we know what's going to happen as it always happens that way and we are powerless to stop it. So it goes. It's an interior story and the interior parts were moving and true. She also has excellent parallels and allusions running throughout and the setting is detailed and evocative.