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HarperCollins
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
ISBN: 0060834862
EAN: 9780060834869
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In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator
embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of
human creation and reveal the little-known story of the
Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic
coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor
knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the
cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But
with the unheralded birth of a strange new child—a boy—the
harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy. In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts
the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men
and women manage to live side by side in the world and how
the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of
our existence.
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