The book to compare to *Going Away *would be Lessing's *Berger' Daughter, *I think. Dan
My latest book, my first novel. trotskyintijuana.com On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 8:31 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > It's worth mentioning that my good cyberfriend, the late Clancy Sigal, > was the American expatriate who was depicted as her lover in the novel. > He doesn't come off well at all. I read "Golden Notebook" about 25 years > ago and thought it was okay but it couldn't hold a candle to Clancy's > "Going Away", a roman-a-clef about his imminent departure for England > where he will hook up with Lessing. Before he goes, he makes a circuit > of all his CP friends about what went wrong. When I read it in 1980, > just about the time the SWP was going off the deep end, I found it > remarkably insightful so much so that I bought 5 copies and sent it to > my old friends in the Trotskyist movement. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#783): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/783 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76368144/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
