The Summer Before the Dark

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394484282 / ISBN 13: 9780394484280

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1973

About this Item

First Edition. First U. S. Edition. Dust jacket shows some rubbing, small stains on edges, and rips on top of spine. Text inside is clean and bright.

Seller Inventory # mon0000132767

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer Before the Dark
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394484282
• ISBN 13: 9780394484280
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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