The Good Terrorist
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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. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. 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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The synopsis that I read before reading this book lead me to believe it would be a novel about The Struggles and the IRA. It is not. It's more of a commentary on “revolutionary” culture in England. The characters are simplified, over exaggerated, and one dimensional, which is perhaps the point, but for me it wasn't enjoyable. The only reason I read till the end was to see what conclusions/comments the author was trying to make.
