The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing

Lessing, Doris May (1919-)

ISBN 10: 0394484282 / ISBN 13: 9780394484280

Published by New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House], 1973

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. 22 cm. Subject: Women -- Fiction. Aging -- Fiction. Loneliness -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 68574

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing
• Publisher: New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House]
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394484282
• ISBN 13: 9780394484280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

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

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." ? ?