The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing

Lessing, Doris May (1919-)

ISBN 10: 0394484282 / ISBN 13: 9780394484280

Published by New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House], 1973

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. 22 cm. Subject: Women -- Fiction. Aging -- Fiction. Loneliness -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 68574

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing
• Publisher: New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House]
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394484282
• ISBN 13: 9780394484280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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