The Summer Before the Dark

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394710959 / ISBN 13: 9780394710952

Published by Vintage, 1983

Seller Inventory # 0394710959-4-36575078

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Summer Before the Dark
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Fair