| The Summer Before the Dark Contributor(s): Lessing, Doris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307390624 ISBN-13: 9780307390622 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2009 Annotation: As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age. "From the Paperback edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009504363 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. As the summer begins, Kate Brown--attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children--has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was--living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring--no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally and truly come of age. |