Collected Stories: Volume Two: The Temptation Of Jack Orkney
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices comes Collected Stories, Volume Two: The Temptation of Jack Orkney, a masterful gathering of short fiction that chronicles the quiet dramas, moral reckonings, and inner lives of ordinary men and women navigating an extraordinary world. The title story anchors the collection with a profound meditation on faith, mortality, and political disillusionment, as Jack Orkney — a veteran left-wing activist — is shaken to his core by his father's death and a series of unsettling dreams that force him to confront the spiritual void at the heart of his secular convictions. Doris Lessing writes with unflinching psychological precision and a cool, unsentimental compassion that refuses easy resolutions, holding her characters accountable to the full complexity of their interior contradictions. This second volume of her collected stories stands as a testament to her extraordinary range — moving between the domestic and the political, the personal and the cosmic — and cements her reputation as a writer who illuminates the hidden fault lines of modern consciousness. Readers who enter these pages will find themselves quietly interrogated long after the final story has ended.
Author: Doris Lessing
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices comes Collected Stories, Volume Two: The Temptation of Jack Orkney, a masterful gathering of short fiction that chronicles the quiet dramas, moral reckonings, and inner lives of ordinary men and women navigating an extraordinary world. The title story anchors the collection with a profound meditation on faith, mortality, and political disillusionment, as Jack Orkney — a veteran left-wing activist — is shaken to his core by his father's death and a series of unsettling dreams that force him to confront the spiritual void at the heart of his secular convictions. Doris Lessing writes with unflinching psychological precision and a cool, unsentimental compassion that refuses easy resolutions, holding her characters accountable to the full complexity of their interior contradictions. This second volume of her collected stories stands as a testament to her extraordinary range — moving between the domestic and the political, the personal and the cosmic — and cements her reputation as a writer who illuminates the hidden fault lines of modern consciousness. Readers who enter these pages will find themselves quietly interrogated long after the final story has ended.