The Summer Before the Dark

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10: 0394484282 / ISBN 13: 9780394484280

Published by Knopf, New York, 1973

About this Item

"Published May 11, 1973. First and second printings before publication," states the copyright page. The book is fine. The price-unclipped dust jacket has a small watermark at the top of the rear cover and, in general, the white on the dust jacket has yellowed some.

Seller Inventory # 000099

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer Before the Dark
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394484282
• ISBN 13: 9780394484280
• Binding: Boards
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Modern First Editions
  • Fiction

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

Review

‘This is probably the best book Doris Lessing has ever written. It would be a deprivation not to read it at once.’ Economist

‘An honest, perceptive, serious book.’ Irish Times

‘Painfully, poignantly authentic.’ David Lodge, New Statesman

‘A summer journey of self-discovery which ends amazingly, in an act of self-definition so searching, so acute and total, one puts down the book shaken, enlarged, in awe. It is an ostensibly simple story, simply told, developing all the way and deepening: the particular universalised in a narrative of compelling power. No wonder Mrs Lessing has been spoken of in the same breath as Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn.’ Sunday Times