"Published May 11, 1973. First and second printings before publication," states the copyright page. The book is fine. The price-unclipped dust jacket has a small watermark at the top of the rear cover and, in general, the white on the dust jacket has yellowed some.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Summer Before the Dark

Publisher

Knopf, New York

Publication Date

1973

Language

English

ISBN 10

0394484282

ISBN 13

9780394484280

Binding

Boards

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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With her children grown and her husband away in America for several months, Kate Brown finds herself alone for the first time in twenty years

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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.

"A splendid and serious novel that reminds one once again of just how much the fictive imagination can order and enrich experience." ? National Observer

"Lessing's prose has the nervous intensity and quick, impressionistic lightness of some of D. H. Lawrence's later work. We are caught up in a rush of strong feeling."? Walter Clemons, Newsweek

"(A) masterpiece...probably the best book she has written." ? ?

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