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Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all... read more
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- James
- Wilhelm Stein
- Mr Mandizi
- Joshua
- Mr Phiri
- Edna Pyne
- Tilly
- Cedric
- Daniel
- Meriel
- William
- Father Mcguire
- Philip
- Sister Molly
- Cohn
- Aaron
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- Roland
- Zebedee
- Margaret
- Comrade Mo
- Celia
- Jolyon
- Mona
- Mutti
- Butler
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AN EARLY EVENING in autumn, and the street below was a scene of small yellow lights that suggested intimacy, and people already bundled up for winter.
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- Doris Lessing (Author)
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Publication Date: 2001
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- Dewey: 823.914
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