Life Before Man - Hardcover
An exploration of contemporary concerns--love, exploitation, survival, sex roles, personal power--centers on the inner lives and relationships of an attractive, independent woman, her ineffectual husband, and his passive, easily manipulated lover
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"A modern saga...she has a fine ear for words and a quick wit for absudities" (The Times)
"An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love" (Isabel Quigley Financial Times)
"Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel. It deserves a wide readership" (Michael Herbert Literary Review)
"Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style" (Jeffrey Meyers Spectator)
"Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement" (Peter Kemp Listener)
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"An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love" (Isabel Quigley Financial Times)
"Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel. It deserves a wide readership" (Michael Herbert Literary Review)
"Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style" (Jeffrey Meyers Spectator)
"Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement" (Peter Kemp Listener)
'A splendid work...superb' - Marilyn French
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0671251155
- ISBN 13 9780671251154
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