Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 241 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Women ; Fiction. Women. English fiction 20th century. Fiction in English. English fiction. Domestic fiction. Women. English fiction 20th century. Science fiction, English. Science fiction Women authors. 1 Kg.

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Title: The summer before the dark / Doris Lessing
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 1973
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224008323
ISBN 13: 9780224008327
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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The Summer Before the Dark

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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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