A very good copy in a very good unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by Doris Lessing on the title page--signature only. The black decorated cloth boards show light toning and there is a previous owner's name stamp on the front pastedown behind the flap. Dustjacket is not price clipped and shows only slight sun fading and a tiny bit of edgewear--but not much to speak of. Lessing's story of one woman's coming to grips with aging and a changing life she is not sure how to handle.

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Title: The Summer Before the Dark (Signed First Printing)
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1973
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394484282
ISBN 13: 9780394484280
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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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