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The Good Terrorist is a 1985 political novel written by the British novelist Doris Lessing. The book's protagonist is the naïve drifter Alice, who squats with a group of radicals in London and is drawn into their terrorist activities.
- Doris May Lessing
- 1985
Jan 1, 2001 · The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA.
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- Paperback
May 3, 2023 · When Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007, Swedish writer Per Wästberg, called The Good Terrorist ‘an in-depth account of the extreme left-wing squatting culture that sponges off female self-sacrifice’. In your reading of the novel, did you feel it was patriarchal?
Mar 26, 2019 · As young men, Jason Walters and Nouredine El Fahtni are members of the extremist Dutch Hofstadgroep, a group held responsible for murder, plotting terror attacks and making death threats. Now, they claim to be reformed. They warn against radicalization. Or proclaim to be family men.
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- Documentary
- Robert Oey
- 2019-03-26
Mar 25, 2008 · With a nuanced sense of the intersections between the personal and the political, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing creates in The Good Terrorist a compelling portrait of domesticity and rebellion.
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- 1985
- Doris May Lessing
The The Good Terrorist Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
Jan 1, 1985 · In her mid-thirties, intelligent, resourceful, and sensitive, Alice Mellings is the organizer, the mother-figure, of a vagabond radical group, some of whose members become active terrorists, confronting the group with dissension, real danger, and the necessity of making crucial decisions. Print length. 375 pages. Language. English. Publisher.
- Hardcover
- Doris Lessing
