The Summer Before the Dark : First printing

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0224008323 / ISBN 13: 9780224008327

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1973

About this Item

True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£1.95). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small mark, odd small crease/rub to edges, a couple of very small (approx. 3mms) tears, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, little patchy browning to reverse (white side), minor patchy creasing/browning to front/back inner flaps and a little patchy rubbing to top surface. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top edge of pages dyed grey have the odd small mark/minor scratch. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/small scratch to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer Before the Dark : First printing
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224008323
• ISBN 13: 9780224008327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The Summer Before the Dark

From the Inside Flap

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." ? ?