TY - BOOK AU - Lessing, Doris TI - The good terrorist SN - 9780007498789 PY - 2013/// CY - PB - Fourth State KW - P-EN KW - Radicals KW - England KW - London KW - Terrorism KW - READING IN ENGLISH KW - Novels N2 - In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice seems capable of organising anything. Motherly, practical and determined, she is also easily exploited by the group and ideal fodder for a more dangerous and potent cause. Eventually their naïve radical fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, but the aftermath is not as exciting as they had hoped. Nonetheless, while they may not have changed the world, their lives will never be the same again ER -